Sr Engineer - Cloud Enablement

About Us 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. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasnt happened by accident.

Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Targets global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the companys global strategy and operations.

Target Tech Overview

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Targets investments in technology and innovation. Were the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

Our global in-house technology team of more than 5,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers strive to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guestsand we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.

Pyramid Overview The Cloud Enablement team builds and operates the foundational public cloud platform that engineering teams across Target rely on to deliver at enterprise scale. Working primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the team owns a hardened, standardized cloud foundation spanning compute, Kubernetes, storage, networking, and identity the core building blocks that power Target's digital and data-driven experiences.

Our mission is to make cloud simple, secure, and cost-effective to consume: we design the opinionated patterns, policies, and guardrails that keep workloads safe and reliable, and we build the APIs, automation, and self-service tooling that let teams adopt and scale cloud services with confidence. Following an infrastructure-as-code philosophy, we treat repeatability, resilience, and security as first-class engineering outcomes rather than afterthoughts. We partner closely with platform and product teams to onboard new workloads, drive cloud cost stewardship, and continuously raise the bar on operational excellence, availability, and readiness for our highest-traffic events.

As a lead engineer on this team, you'll help shape cloud strategy, architect platform capabilities and tooling, and set technical direction that multiplies the productivity of engineers across the company a high-impact role at the center of how Target builds in the cloud.

As a Senior Engineer on the Cloud Enablement team, you'll contribute:

What Youll Do

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable cloud platform capabilities using cloud services, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a strong focus on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience in Golang.

Implement cloud engineering best practices across resource provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, observability, security, governance, and cost optimization.

Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies to automate infrastructure deployment and configuration.

Build and maintain APIs, automation services, and operational tooling that simplify cloud operations and improve engineering productivity.

Drive continuous improvement by adopting and advancing automation, orchestration, GitOps, self-service tooling, and reusable platform patterns.

Apply your technical expertise and stay current with emerging technologies and practices across cloud computing, Kubernetes, platform engineering, and DevOps.

Evaluate new technologies and contribute to technical decision-making. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities to assess new technologies and approaches.

Provide technical guidance for both routine and complex engineering challenges, including troubleshooting issues across cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing. Escalate issues when appropriate.

Participate in complex design, construction, automation, migration, and implementation initiatives, ensuring solutions meet architectural, security, compliance, and operational requirements.

Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices for monitoring, testing, automation, security, and maintenance of cloud platform components, infrastructure services, and shared engineering capabilities.

Maintain a strong understanding of the organizations technical capabilities, cloud infrastructure, platform services, and broader technology environment.

Required Qualifications

Four-year degree or equivalent practical experience.

6+ years of experience in .