Target

Overview

As a Senior Engineer focused on Developer Productivity and DevEx, you will take a lead execution and component design role in building, scaling, and optimizing our long-term software delivery fabric.

About Target

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.

Requirements & Eligibility

• 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 Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, or Developer Experience
• Deep developer empathy and a proven track record of implementing and maintaining highly ergonomic internal developer tools or API contracts or shared libraries
• Strong understanding of macOS and Linux operating system internals, alongside hands-on experience managing or interacting with multi-language package management systems such as Homebrew, pip, and npm
• Experience in data engineering, specifically implementing scalable data schemas and streaming data into query engines like Snowflake or visualization platforms like Datadog/Grafana
• Practical knowledge of Software Supply Chain Security concepts such as vulnerability mapping, dependency management, and artifact signing

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, migrate, and optimize a unified, greenfield software delivery platform that provides a reviewed, governed Golden Path for software consumption across the company
• Develop a platform capable of seamlessly supplying software and managing dependencies for both human developers and autonomous agents working in code-generation and review pipelines
• Prioritize the developer experience by building clean, ergonomic interfaces and CLI tools that serve as an intuitive safety net rather than a source of friction
• Build automated security guardrails, including version cooldown periods and strict quarantine rules, to detect and block supply chain attacks before code enters production environments
• Implement high-performance telemetry pipelines to track asset distribution and version drift, streaming data cleanly into our enterprise data stack including Snowflake, Datadog, and Prometheus
• Work with Staff and Principal Engineers to translate the Tech Radar tiers into real-time, automated platform enforcements