Sr Engineer

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. As a Senior Engineer, you will lead the design and development of platform-level capabilities for operational intelligence, reliability engineering, and automation across enterprise collaboration ecosystems. You will work on telemetry-driven systems that identify what is unhealthy, why it is happening, and what should be done next — while building automation and architecture that scales across multiple platforms and partners Key Responsibilities Own the design and delivery of critical backend and analytics platform components Build scalable telemetry, analytics, and automation systems Define operational metrics, health signals, and reliability indicators Drive platform evolution from provider-specific analytics to reusable cross-platform capabilities Enable reliable operations through engineering guardrails, automation, and data-backed workflows Partner cross-functionally with Endpoint Engineering, Device Management, Security, and collaboration platform stakeholders Mentor other engineers and raise technical quality across the team Required Qualifications Strong backend engineering experience in Python or similar technologies Deep SQL, data processing, and systems design experience Experience designing scalable services, APIs, or data-intensive platforms Strong problem-solving ability across complex operational systems Experience dealing with ambiguity and translating business/operational problems into engineering solutions Preferred Qualifications Experience in observability, telemetry platforms, SRE, reliability engineering, or operational analytics Experience with anomaly detection, performance monitoring, and report automation Familiarity with enterprise collaboration platforms and their operational signals Strong practical understanding of LLM-enabled systems, including: model selection for latency vs reasoning token/cost optimization prompt and response architecture evaluation and safety considerations production design patterns for AI-assisted workflows Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop. We'll contact you if you're selected for next steps. In the meantime, follow us at A Bullseye View for the latest news. Our Benefits We care about and invest 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.