Engineer - IoT Platform

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

2d • $75,400 - $135,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

The mission of the IoT Platform Team is to enable Target teams to deploy and manage IoT and RFID devices at scale across Target facilities, delivering guest and team member services effectively and efficiently while abstracting device management and network complexities. The platform powers critical capabilities such as RFID-based inventory visibility, refrigerator monitoring, guest request buttons, team member safety, and productivity use cases. It supports thousands of connected devices across Target locations and processes millions of messages, providing a scalable and reliable foundation for our IoT and RFID ecosystem.
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.
Target values engineers that care about:
A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture
Robust architectures with mature CI/CD pipelines
Code as craft with a desire to solve complex engineering problems with simplicity
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
Canary and A/B testing to push code multiple times a day during business hours
Learning and experimenting with technologies
High observability with robust logs, metrics and tracing
Leveraging edge computing and elastic infrastructure
As an Engineer on the IoT platform team:
Are empowered to make technological choices and pick the best tools for the job.
Are building self-service platform constructs to allow other teams at Target to accomplish their business goals.
Have a goal of Full CD deployments with automated tests, monitoring, and rollback.
Think outside the box to solve problems with high cardinality that will break traditional tools meant for applications such as monitoring tools.
Our engineering teams are empowered to select the appropriate technology for the problem they are trying to solve. Common technologies include: Micronaut, Kotlin, Java, Python, Golang, Kafka, relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, MariaDB, Mongo, Redis, etc.), Orchestration workflow engines like Temporal, Camunda

Requirements

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of software development experience
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Foundational understanding of software engineering practices including data structures, debugging, testing, version control, code reviews, and writing maintainable code
• Familiarity with cloud, platform, or distributed systems concepts such as APIs, containers, Kubernetes, networking, storage, messaging/streaming, observability, or service reliability
• Ability to learn new technologies, tools, and domains quickly, and apply that learning to solve engineering problems with guidance from more senior engineers.
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product.
• Develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components.
• Solve engineering problems.
• Balance speed of delivering new features with robustness of software components.
• Handle operational issues with little or no oversight.
• Actively review code to ensure software quality and functional accuracy.
• Learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both.
• Make technological choices and pick the best tools for the job.
• Build self-service platform constructs to allow other teams at Target to accomplish their business goals.
• Achieve Full CD deployments with automated tests, monitoring, and rollback.
• Think outside the box to solve problems with high cardinality that will break traditional tools meant for applications such as monitoring tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree