Sr Engineer - Reliability Engineering & Enablement

Job Id: R0000430516

The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00

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.

As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

About Our Team:

The Reliability Engineering & Enablement (REE) team strengthens the resilience, recoverability, and operational excellence of Target’s technology platforms. We build the tooling, internal products, and enablement capabilities that help engineering teams design, deploy, and operate reliable systems at enterprise scale.

Our mission is simple: make reliability easier, more visible, and more actionable for every engineering team.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer with strong front-end expertise who is motivated to expand into broader full-stack ownership. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building thoughtful user experiences and wants to deepen their impact by shaping the services and systems behind them. This team works across organizational boundaries. Influence, collaboration, and credibility matter just as much as technical skill.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and deliver modern, scalable front-end applications that support reliability, disaster recovery, and operational workflows.
• Translate ambiguous business and engineering needs into clear technical solutions.
• Partner closely with SRE, platform, product, and domain engineering teams across Target.
• Contribute to backend services and APIs that power internal tooling.
• Improve the developer experience through automation, self-service capabilities, and intuitive UI design.
• Lead technical design discussions and influence architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and help elevate front-end and full-stack engineering standards.
• Drive initiatives end-to-end — from discovery through production support.

Mindset & Behaviors

We’re looking for someone who:

• Navigates ambiguity with confidence and creates clarity where it’s missing.
• Demonstrates ownership — identifying gaps and driving solutions proactively.
• Values inclusion and builds strong connections across teams.
• Communicates effectively with engineers, product partners, and leaders.
• Brings steady drive and follow-through without waiting for direction.

What Success Looks Like:

• Engineers across Target adopt and rely on REE-built tooling.
• Reliability workflows become simpler, faster, and more self-service.
• Stronger alignment between reliability standards and engineering execution.
• Expanded full-stack contributions that increase team agility and impact.

Growth & Impact

This role offers:

• Broad enterprise visibility across domains and platforms.
• Opportunity to shape reliability practices at scale.
• Exposure to disaster recovery, resilience strategy, and operational excellence.
• A pathway into deeper platform engineering or technical leadership roles.

If you’re looking to widen your scope, influence engineering practices beyond your current domain, and grow into full-stack impact — this role is built for that trajectory.

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
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features

• Deep experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, TypeScript, component-driven architecture).

• Strong understanding of UI architecture, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.

• Experience consuming and designing APIs (REST/GraphQL).

• Working knowledge of backend service design and cloud-native principles.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and DevOps practices.

• Experience operating within cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure preferred).
• Working knowledge on package-specific configuration and deployment along with ability to build custom solutions
• Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
• Demonstrates strong proficiency in core development platforms within own domain
• Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities
• Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests
• Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm
• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
• Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures
• Maintains 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.

Benefits Eligibility

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.