Sr Engineering Manager - Core Platform Services

Target • Minneapolis, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead Target’s Core Platform Services team, partnering with a Principal Engineer, Product Manager, and peer platform leaders to remove friction across the builder experience and deliver common services used across Target’s platforms. The team’s work begins with Action Center, remediation guides, and agentic remediation, and will expand to capabilities that support builders from starting projects through operating them in production. The role is accountable for building a high-performing team of platform, full-stack, and AI engineers and developing future technical leaders.

The manager will deliver highly available, multi-tenant services that are relied on across the enterprise; treat builder experience as a product; set and achieve adoption, completion, and manual-work reduction targets; and encourage adoption by peer platform teams. The role also applies AI safely, keeps people involved in reviewing changes where appropriate, and owns builder trust as an outcome. It includes operating business-critical services in a 24x7 production environment with strong on-call health and incident practices, and representing the team in cross-domain architecture and enterprise planning forums.

The position requires technical judgment across architecture, APIs, workflows, multi-tenant systems, and failure analysis, along with clear communication, operational discipline, and effectiveness in ambiguous environments. The role works with the Product Manager and engineering leaders across Target to identify builder friction and shape the roadmap. The team commonly uses Golang, Kubernetes, Kafka, React, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and agentic AI patterns.

The position operates in a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement, with work performed both onsite at the assigned Target HQ Minnesota location and virtually based on role, team, and task needs. Work may not be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of software engineering experience.
• 1–3 years of experience managing teams, with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with cloud hosting and product management.
• Experience coaching and mentoring engineers on architecture and modern engineering practices.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared services used by other teams.
• Experience driving adoption of a platform or standard across an organization through influence.
• Experience supporting and operating 24x7 business-critical capabilities.
• Experience designing and deploying scalable APIs and microservices in a multi-tenant environment.
• Experience applying LLMs or agentic AI to real engineering workflows, including safety guardrails.
• Experience instrumenting products with metrics, logs, and traces to make them observable by default.
• Ability to communicate complex technical solutions clearly to diverse audiences.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams in a product-oriented environment.
• In-depth knowledge of system design, build, test, and operational debugging practices.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production systems at scale.
• Experience leading engineering teams and developing engineers.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with evolving technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of platform, full-stack, and AI engineers, and develop the next layer of technical leaders.
• Deliver common services, starting with Action Center and agentic remediation, as highly available, multi-tenant services used across the enterprise.
• Treat builder experience as the product and work with the Product Manager to identify friction, set targets for adoption and completion, reduce manual work, and hold the team accountable for outcomes.
• Earn adoption from peer platform teams and help them integrate with the team's services and capabilities.
• Apply AI safely, automating work where agents are proven reliable and keeping people in the review loop where needed.
• Operate 24x7 business-critical services with operational discipline, healthy on-call practices, and rigorous incident management.
• Build relationships with engineering leaders across Target, identify builder friction and opportunities, and work with the Product Manager to shape the roadmap.
• Represent the team in cross-domain architecture and enterprise planning forums.
• Coach engineers to grow in scope and influence and help establish a strong, inclusive, accountable engineering culture aligned to enterprise outcomes.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Financial, education, and well-being benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior