Lead Engineer - Target India
Target
Bangalore,IndiaPosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
System DesignDockerCloud SecurityNginxrelated fieldVMwareMicroservicesObservabilityGCPEngineeringServerlessKubernetesPrometheusnetworkingTerraformdesigningdebuggingsecuritybuildingDatadogTestNGGolangdesignLinuxCloudFulltime
Key highlights
- 9+ years of software engineering experience focused on Google Cloud Platform.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Deep hands‑on expertise with a wide range of GCP services (IAM, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, etc.).
- Strong Go (GoLang) development experience building scalable microservices and platform services.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/GKE) and SRE principles is a plus.
Role overview
As a Lead Engineer on Target’s Cloud Enablement team, you will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering group supporting a product, creating and owning the platform architecture that meets functional and non‑functional requirements. You will identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve service quality while influencing a broader team as a force multiplier.
Responsibilities
- Create, own and are responsible for the platform architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs.
- Identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both).
- Deploy, manage, and support cloud infrastructure solutions using Cloud services, particularly Google Cloud, with a strong focus on cloud networking.
- Implement best practices for cloud resource provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and security.
- Develop and maintain cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code tools to automate deployment and configuration tasks.
- Drive continuous improvement through the adoption of automation and orchestration.
- Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain.
- Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies.
- Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level.
- In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.
- Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
- Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.
- Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
- Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles.
- Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met.
- Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems.
- Stay current with Target's technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 9+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), cloud-native platforms, and distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on expertise across Google Cloud Platform services including IAM, Organizations/Folders/Projects, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL/Spanner/Bigtable, VPC networking, Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, serverless services, Cloud Operations, and cloud security best practices.
- Strong software development experience in Go (GoLang) with proven expertise building scalable microservices, cloud-native applications, APIs, platform services, automation frameworks, and developer tooling.
- Proven experience designing and developing highly available, scalable, and resilient distributed systems running on Google Cloud.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar technologies to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, identity and access management, security, observability, governance, and cloud cost optimization on GCP.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, containers, virtualization, networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud-native runtime environments.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize system scalability, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, architecture, product, and platform teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (preferably GKE) is highly desirable.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including reliability engineering, production operations, monitoring, incident management, and service performance optimization, is an added advantage.
- Experience with observability platforms and tools such as OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Datadog, or similar.
Additional details
- Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
- Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
- Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.