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Sr Engineer
Job Id: R0000441648
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About Us
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.
Overview about TII
At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.
Position Overview
As a Senior Engineer focused on Performance and Cost Observability, you will take a lead role in architecting, migrating, and optimizing our end-to-end monitoring ecosystems. At Shipt, we believe technology lacks significance without a human touch, and that extends to how we empower our engineering teams. With your deep technical expertise, you will guide teams in delivering reliable, resilient, and cost-effective distributed systems that directly support our mission to spark connections and serve our communities. You will be responsible for driving critical technical discussions around system health and financial efficiency, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure our infrastructure scales sustainably. The role involves tackling high-impact technical challenges—from managing high-cardinality telemetry data to building transparent cost models—shaping both the current observability landscape and the long-term infrastructure strategy of the company.
How you can make an impact
- Architect and Lead: Design, migrate, and optimize end-to-end monitoring and observability solutions that ensure the absolute reliability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness of our large-scale distributed systems.
- Drive Reliability Standards: Lead the definition, implementation, and standardization of Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) across all engineering teams, fostering a culture of measurable reliability.
- Manage Complex Telemetry: Drive the strategy for high-cardinality data management and distributed tracing using standards like OpenTelemetry, ensuring deep system insights without unchecked cost sprawl.
- Optimize Financial Efficiency: Implement and refine critical performance and FinOps observability metrics. You will actively track and optimize Revenue per unit of infrastructure costs, Cost per deployed service, and Service utilization rates.
- Collaborate Strategically: Work closely with Finance, Infrastructure, and Engineering Leadership to gather requirements, clarify efficiency objectives, and build transparent showback models of engineering costs to the business.
- Mentor and Empower: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, helping them master performance optimization, FinOps observability practices, and effective monitoring strategies.
- Scale for the Future: Collaborate with Principal and Distinguished Engineers to design scalable observability architectures that align with Shipt’s long-term business growth and infrastructure sustainability.
- Resolve and Innovate: Analyze complex performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies, propose innovative solutions, and take ownership of their resolution in production environments.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 4+ years of professional software development and systems engineering experience, with a heavy emphasis on Observability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or FinOps.
- Expertise in one or more programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, or C++.
- Deep technical knowledge of modern observability frameworks, specifically OpenTelemetry, and proven experience managing high-cardinality telemetry data.
- Demonstrated experience in defining, measuring, and operationalizing SLOs and SLIs within large-scale microservices or distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of performance and FinOps observability practices, with the ability to measure infrastructure efficiency and implement engineering cost showback models.
- Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to identify the root causes of complex performance issues or cloud cost anomalies and develop effective, automated solutions.
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical teams and align engineering efforts with Finance and business stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) and modern software architectures such as microservices
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, automation tools, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working on large-scale software systems or projects in a team environment
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- Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
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Competitive benefits
We are proud to provide benefits that support you, your family and your future.
Health and well-being
Target in India (TII) prioritizes our people by offering healthcare support, fitness programs, teleheath benefits (i.e., screenings and consultations) and 24/7 confidential mental well-being telecounseling support.
Financial well-being
Your financial well-being is bright with TII's comprehensive flexible insurance program, National Pension System, learning assistance program, day care support and much more.
Paid time off
TII encourages work-life balance with paid time off like privilege, casual, bereavement and parental leaves that offer support in all stages of life.
Competitive pay
TII knows our people are everything and proudly provides equitable and competitive pay.
Other benefits
From digitalized cafeteria solutions to transportation services to broadband reimbursement, enjoy special everyday perks.
Creating a culture of joy
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Inclusivity
We value diverse voices and approaches. We act with authenticity and respect. We create equitable experiences for all.
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We do what is right for Target, our team and guests. We deliver results that matter. We continually learn by valuing progress over perfection.
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