Senior Engineer - Search Platform

The pay range is $85,500.00 - $153,900.00

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.

The mission/vision of Search Platform Engineering team is to build solutions for findability across Target.com. This team builds enterprise Search solutions for Target for digital and Stores. This team has various platform which helps other teams make their data searchable for internal and external use. This team thrives on using the cutting edge technology to build the next level of Search Platform which is scalable, extensible and make guest/customers findability experience smoother by building various capabilities like Search and browse by partnering with Data science team and helping build various models and Vector implementation. Few of the recent feature development include integration with Large language models (LLM's) like Chat GPT.

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 expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback

on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem-solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences. Using your existing/prior expertise in Search and working on Vector implementation to build these systems.

Target values engineers that care about:

• A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture

• Robust and distributed microservices and event-based architectures with mature CI/CD pipelines

• Code as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems.

• Existing knowledge of building Search applications using Vectors

• Automating everything

• Operational excellence with an approach to engineering that makes our guests and team members their top priority.

• Triaging large scale issues with a bias to prevent them from happening in the first place

• Learning and experimenting with technologies

• High observability with robust logs and metrics

• Leveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructure

• Agile teams and team ceremonies

Our engineering teams are empowered to select the appropriate technology for the problem they are trying to solve. Common technologies include:

• CICD: Code Pipelines like Docker, Drone, Vela, Spinnaker, Testing frameworks, Gatlin

• Languages and Frameworks like Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Golang, REST, http4k, KTOR, Gradle

• Front end technologies like React, Redux

• Databases like Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, Influx, ELK Stack(Elasticsearch), Solr,

• Vector DB like Vespa, ES, Milwerse

• Distributed event streaming platform like Kafka

• Metrics visualizations like Grafana

• Log aggregation with Logstash and Kibana

• Cloud platforms like GCP

• Elastic compute platforms like Kubernetes

About you:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of software development experience in Search technologies with Vector implementation.

• Understanding of Prompt engineering with LLMs

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target's technology capabilities, and key competitors' products and differentiating features

• Participate in the implementation of industry standard software applications

• Support and maintain products to secure hundreds of thousands of endpoints

• Work closely with partner teams

• Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance

• Demonstrates strong proficiency in core development platforms within own domain

• Writes and organizes code using multiple computer languages, including distributed

programming and understand different frameworks and paradigm

• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed

• Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices

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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Supply Chain Facility or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.