Lead Engineer - Managed Kubernetes

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 lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Kubernetes Platform Engineer:

We are looking for a Kubernetes Platform Lead Engineer with strong experience in cloud-native infrastructure, platform engineering, and Kubernetes ecosystem technologies.

Required Skills:

• Strong development experience in Go (Golang)

• Hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms

• Experience with Git Ops tools and practices (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)

• Strong understanding of Observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and tracing

• Experience with Talos Linux and Linux system administration

• Solid understanding of networking concepts, including Kubernetes networking and service connectivity

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters

• Ability to troubleshoot and optimize distributed systems in production environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)and/or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

• Experience with platform automation, infrastructure as code, and cloud-native security best practices

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based platform services

• Develop platform tooling and automation using Go

• Implement and manage Git Ops workflows for application and infrastructure deployment

• Enhance platform observability, reliability, and operational excellence

• Manage and optimize GKE clusters and supporting cloud infrastructure

• Collaborate with engineering teams to enable scalable and secure cloud-native solutions