Target’s Cloud & Compute organization builds and operates the foundational platforms that power the experiences our guests, team members, partners, and engineers rely on every day. Within Cloud & Compute, the Platform AI team creates product experiences and platform capabilities that make infrastructure easier to understand, safer to change, and more transparent to operate. We embed trusted AI and agentic capabilities into the workflows engineers use to develop, deploy, manage, and support applications—connecting fragmented knowledge, tools, and processes so teams can find reliable answers, identify problems earlier, automate routine work, and take action with confidence.
In this role, you will combine technical leadership with a strong product mindset to turn complex infrastructure and operational challenges into simple, dependable experiences. You will help shape ambiguous problems, define technical direction, and lead the development of end-to-end solutions spanning user interfaces, backend services, APIs, platform integrations, and AI or agentic systems. One of the team’s initial initiatives is an action center embedded within our developer portal and coding companions, an experience designed to help application teams surface risks and opportunities, understand recommended actions, and safely resolve issues across deployment and production workflows. You will collaborate closely with product, design, platform engineering, security, and reliability partners to build secure, resilient, observable, and auditable capabilities that reduce manual effort and make it easier for teams across Target to deliver and operate applications successfully.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you
4 year degree or equivalent experience
7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
Experience leading at least one full-cycle implementation of a product, platform capability, infrastructure service, or major technical initiative from design through production operation.
Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating highly scalable, reliable, secure, and performant distributed systems.
Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, frameworks, or technology stacks such as Java, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, or similar.
Broad technical experience across one or more cloud-native or platform engineering domains such as Kubernetes, containers, compute, storage, networking, Kafka or streaming platforms, observability, SRE, cloud management, platform AI, APIs, or cloud console development.
Demonstrates ability to define technical strategy, influence architecture, and make sound engineering tradeoffs across performance, availability, scalability, security, maintainability, cost, and developer experience.
Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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