Engineer - Enterprise Reliability

The pay range is $75,400.00 - $135,700.00

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.

As an Engineer on the Enterprise Reliability team, you help build solutions that make Target's technology more resilient, observable, and dependable. Working with guidance from experienced engineers, you contribute code, automation, tools, and documentation that reduce operational risk and help teams build and run reliable products. You use system signals and incident learning to identify recurring issues and support improvements that balance delivery speed with security, scalability, and reliability. You are curious, collaborative, and motivated to help create a culture in which reliability is designed, measured, and continuously improved.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer on the Enterprise Reliability team, you will contribute as you...

Build and maintain software, automation, and reusable capabilities that help engineering teams operate enterprise services safely and consistently. With guidance, contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of tools related to observability, incident response, service health, resilience, and operational readiness. Learn to use service-level indicators and objectives, logs, metrics, traces, and alerts to understand system behavior and identify improvements. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, debugging, and structured problem solving. Help automate repetitive operational work, improve monitoring and alert quality, and support capacity, performance, and availability analysis. Participate in incident response, post-incident learning, disaster recovery exercises, and follow-up work that prevents recurrence. Create clear documentation, runbooks, standards, and examples that help product teams adopt reliability practices. Follow change, security, risk, and incident management expectations while partnering with engineers and product teams to promote shared ownership of reliability.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:
• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development, infrastructure, operations, internship, or equivalent hands-on technical experience
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language and a willingness to learn additional technologies
• Foundational understanding of version control, testing, debugging, data structures, secure coding, and distributed systems
• Interest in observability, automation, incident response, resilience, performance, capacity, or disaster recovery
• Ability to use logs, metrics, and other system signals to investigate problems and communicate findings
• Collaborative approach, clear communication, thoughtful questions, and openness to feedback
• Learning mindset and commitment to building technical and domain knowledge through training and hands-on practice

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 if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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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 [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.