Sr Engineer

Target is hiring a Sr Engineer in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, scalable, and resilient backend services using Java and Spring Boot

• Lead system design and architecture discussions, making informed trade-offs across performance, scalability, and reliability

• Own services end-to-end in production, ensuring availability, latency, and SLA adherence

• Drive best practices for distributed systems design, fault tolerance, and observability

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and set a high bar for engineering quality

• Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers, improving overall team capability

• Troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root cause analysis, and implement durable fixes

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, UX, and platform teams to deliver solutions end-to-end

• Partner with DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipelines and optimize Kubernetes-based deployments

• Contribute to architecture governance, documenting designs, trade-offs, and operational runbooks

• Influence technical direction by evaluating tools, technologies, and system improvements

• Contribute to building next-generation platform capabilities leveraging agent-based and AI-driven orchestration systems

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with event-driven architectures or streaming systems

• Exposure to high-scale, low-latency systems

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform)

• Experience with performance tuning and system optimization

• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT)

• Familiarity with agentic platforms and AI-driven application architectures, including concepts like orchestration of autonomous agents, tool usage, and workflow-based systems

About Target

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 4000,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is i