The pay range is $85,500.00 - $153,900.00
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 (https://corporate.target.com/about) .
The mission/vision of Search Platform Engineering team is to build solutions for findability across Target.com. This team builds enterprise Search solutions for Target for digital and Stores. This team has various platform which helps other teams make their data searchable for internal and external use. This team thrives on using the cutting edge technology to build the next level of Search Platform which is scalable, extensible and make guest/customers findability experience smoother by building various capabilities like Search and browse by partnering with Data science team and helping build various models and Vector implementation. Few of the recent feature development include integration with Large language models (LLM's) like Chat GPT.
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. Using your existing/prior expertise in Search and working on Vector implementation to build these systems.
Target values engineers that care about:
A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture
Robust and distributed microservices and event-based architectures with mature CI/CD pipelines
Code as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems.
Existing knowledge of building Search applications using Vectors
Automating everything
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
Learning and experimenting with technologies
High observability with robust logs and metrics
Leveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructure
Agile teams and team ceremonies
Our engineering teams are empowered to select the appropriate technology for the problem they are trying to solve. Common technologies include:
CICD: Code Pipelines like Docker, Drone, Vela, Spinnaker, Testing frameworks, Gatlin
Languages and Frameworks like Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Golang, REST, http4k, KTOR, Gradle
Front end technologies like React, Redux
Databases like Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, Influx, ELK Stack(Elasticsearch), Solr,
Vector DB like Vespa, ES, Milwerse
Distributed event streaming platform like Kafka
Metrics visualizations like Grafana
Log aggregation with Logstash and Kibana
Cloud platforms like GCP
Elastic compute platforms like Kubernetes
About you:
4-year degree or equivalent experience
5+ years of software development experience in Search technologies with Vector implementation.
Understanding of Prompt engineering with LLMs
Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target's technology capabilities, and key competitors' products and differentiating features
Participate in the implementation of industry standard software applications
Support and maintain products to secure hundreds of thousands of endpoints
Work closely with partner teams
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
Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributedprogramming and understand different frameworks and paradigm
Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed
Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices
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 (https://corporate.target.com/about/locations/Target-in-the-Twin-Cities) if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
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.
