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.

About the team:

We provide Kafka infrastructure capabilities across both Target Data Center's and GCP. Used by all Target Tech engineering community. The Development Team is present in both TII & MPLS providing seamless 24/7 support to Target.

Job Description: -

Here’s a smattering of approaches important to us and the technologies we use:

• Everything we do is “as-code” in version control. We don’t like clicking buttons or doing things manually.
• All development or infra config changes go through a pull-request process, so you’ll always have a say to thumbs up or down things you catch.
• Everything should have test cases and they go through a continuous integration process.
• We understand the importance of logs and metrics, so having visibility to things you need to see to do your job isn’t an issue. And if you need to add more metrics or see more logs, it’s within our control to improve that.
• We try to own as much of the platform as we reasonably can. You don’t need to rely on other teams outside our own to improve the stack or change the way we do things.
• Kafka/Streaming Stack:
  • Code: Spring Boot (Java/Kotlin), Restful API, Golang
  • Platform: Apache Kafka 2.x, TAP, GCP, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Vela
  • Alerting/Monitoring:  Grafana, Kibana, ELK stack

As a Senior Engineer on Target’s Streaming Platform Team, you'll …

• Help build out the Kafka/Streaming capability in India

• Write and deploy code that enhances the Kafka platform
• Designs infrastructure solutions that support automation, self- provisioning, product health, security/compliance, resiliency, zero- call aspiration, and are Guest/Team Member experience focused
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform operational issues

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience developing in JVM-based languages (e.g. Java/Kotlin)
• Ability to apply skills to solve problems, aptitude to learn additional technologies or go deeper in an area.
• Has good basic programming/infrastructure skills and is able to quickly gather the skills necessary to accomplish the task at hand.
• Intermediate knowledge and skills associated with infrastructure- based technologies
• Works across the team to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks.
• Experience with modern platforms and CI/CD stacks (e.g. GitHub, Vela, Docker)
• Highly productive, self-starter and self-motivated
• Passionate about staying current with new and evolving technologies

Desired:

• 4+ years of experience developing high quality applications and/or supporting critical enterprise platforms
• Experience with Kafka, Containers(k8s), Zookeeper, worked with any one of the major public cloud providers ( GCP/AWS/AZURE)
• Familiarity with Golang and microservices architecture is a big plus
• Participate in day-to-day support requests by performing the admin tasks.
• Install and maintain standard Kafka components: Control Center, ZooKeeper, and Brokers
• Strong understanding of infrastructure/software and how these systems are secured, analyzed, and investigated.
• Is a contact point for their team and is able to help answer questions for other groups and/or management?
• Partner with teams to prioritize and improve services throughout the software development lifecycle
• Personal or professional experience contributing to open-source projects
• Innovative mindset – willingness to push new ideas into the company