Lead Engineer - IoT Platform
Apply Now Location: 7000 Target Pkwy N, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, 55445; job id: R0000347704job family: Product Engineering
schedule: Full time
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
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.
The mission of the IoT Platform Team is to enable Target teams to deploy and manage IoT devices at scale in Target facilities to provide guest and team member services effectively and efficiently by abstracting device management and network complexities. Critical guest services such as refrigerator monitoring, guest request button, team member safety and productivity use cases. The platform has about 50K devices connected and processes 100s of millions of messages per day from across 2K locations.
As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a platform. You create, own, and are responsible for the platform architecture that best serves the functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development and improve the quality of service. You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”.
Target values engineers that care about:
- A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture
- Robust architectures with mature CI/CD pipelines
- Code as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems with simplicity
- Operational excellence with an approach to engineering that makes our guests and team members their top priority.
- Triaging large scale issues with a bias to prevent them from happening in the first place
- Canary and A/B testing to push code multiple times a day during business hours
- Learning and experimenting with technologies
- High observability with robust logs, metrics and tracing
- Leveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructure
As an Engineer on the IoT platform team:
- Are empowered to make technological choices and pick the best tools for the job.
- Are building self-service platform constructs to allow other teams at Target to accomplish their business goals.
- Have a goal of Full CD deployments with automated tests, monitoring, and rollback.
- Think outside the box to solve problems with high cardinality that will break traditional tools meant for applications such as monitoring tools.
Our engineering teams are empowered to select the appropriate technology for the problem they are trying to solve. Common technologies include: Micronaut, Kotlin, Java, Python, Golang, Kafka, relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MariaDB, Mongo, Redis, etc.), Orchestration workflow engines like Temporal, Camunda.
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
- Demonstrates strong foundational core computer science concepts
- Strong understanding of systems design, Development and Observability for building robust and scalable software solutions
- Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source). Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure
- Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
- Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
- Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management
- Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
- Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems
- Related experiences with the following technologies: Micronaut, Kotlin, Java, Python, Golang, Kafka, relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MariaDB, Mongo, Redis, etc.), Orchestration workflow engines like Temporal, Camunda
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.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Target will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Supply Chain Facility or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.
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