Sr Engineer - Target India

Target is hiring a Sr Engineer - Target India in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native applications and platform services.

• Build, deploy, and operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes platforms.

• Develop APIs and microservices using Java, Kotlin, and/or Go.

• Implement and support GitOps-based deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

• Troubleshoot and resolve application and platform issues in production environments.

• Improve application reliability, observability, performance, and scalability.

• Contribute to infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling.

• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions.

• Follow engineering best practices for security, resiliency, automation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Strong software development experience with Java/Kotlin and frameworks such as Micronaut or Spring Boot.

• Experience with Go (Golang) and/or Groovy/Ratpack is a plus.

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed systems.

• Experience implementing GitOps practices using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.

• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and operating applications on Kubernetes.

• Experience with caching technologies and SQL databases.

• Experience with public cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS or Azure is also valued.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes deployment tools, including Terraform, Helm, and/or Kustomize.

• Experience with observability solutions, including metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.

• Strong problem-solving skills with experience troubleshooting production applications and distributed systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.

About Target

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 expertize in applying the appropriate software engineering