Engineer - Hardware Observability

As an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.

Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As an engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

Use your data engineering skills to support Target’s Infrastructure organization by helping build, maintain, and improve reliable data pipelines for hardware observability data. Partner with engineering consumers across SecOps, DevOps, and Observability use cases to ensure data is available, trusted, and easy to use. With guidance, develop and maintain data schemas, ETL processes, validation checks, and pipeline tooling that collect, transform, and deliver infrastructure telemetry and related metadata. Monitor data quality, investigate common data issues, and assist with root cause analysis when pipelines, data feeds, or quality checks fail. Contribute to documentation for data definitions, lineage, standards, and operational runbooks so teams can understand and use hardware observability data effectively. Participate in code reviews, testing, deployment, change management, and incident response activities while learning Target’s engineering practices, infrastructure platforms, and data governance expectations.

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

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of data engineering, observability engineering, infrastructure data, or related technical experience
• Understands foundational data engineering concepts, including data schemas, data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, batch and streaming data processing, and pipeline reliability
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one general programming language (i.e., Python, Java, etc) and at least one domain-specific language used for data pipeline development
• Understands data quality concepts and can implement validation checks, monitoring, reconciliation, and issue investigation for observability data pipelines

• Knowledge of common data formats, metadata, lineage, and schema evolution practices, with the ability to apply them to hardware observability and infrastructure telemetry data

• Demonstrates familiarity with automation tools, network technology fundamentals, and SecOps practices

• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies, Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D

• Target Tech
• Full-time
• $75,400 - $135,700 USD annually

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• 7000 Target Pkwy N, Brooklyn Park, MN, US 55445
• Target Tech
• Full-time
• $75,400 - $135,700 USD annually

Job Id: R0000449637

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., 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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

Competitive benefits

We are proud to provide benefits that support you, your family and your future.

Health and well-being

Target offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans. Plus, get free 24/7 virtual care and mental health support.

Financial well-being

Your financial future is bright with TGT 401(k) offering 5% eligible contribution matching and more discount and reimbursement programs.

Paid time off

Target encourages work-life balance by offering eligible team members vacation time and paid national holidays, sick time and family leave.

Education assistance

Target’s industry-leading education assistance benefit, Dream to Be, offers tuition-free programs to support your growth.

Market-leading pay

Target is a proud pay leader in retail and highly competitive with other large companies, providing equitable and competitive pay for all.

Team Target discount

Team members get a 10% discount at all Target stores and Target.com, along with 20% off wellness products and 20% off adult owned-brand apparel and accessories. Plus, get an additional 5% savings with a Target Circle Card. More about pay & benefits

Eligibility requirements may vary based on position, average hours worked, length of service and program requirements. Benefits are subject to change.

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