Sr Engineering Manager - Core Platform Services

Target • Minneapolis, MN

3d • $132,000 - $238,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead Target’s Core Platform Services team, partnering with a Principal Engineer, the team’s Product Manager, and peer platform leaders to remove friction across the software-builder experience. The team develops shared services that connect Target’s platforms, beginning with Action Center, remediation guides, and agentic remediation. Its services support builders across more than 5,000 applications on Target Application Platform (TAP), and are intended to help builders complete platform work safely and efficiently.

The manager will lead platform, full-stack, and AI engineers; grow technical leaders; and deliver highly available, multi-tenant services used across the enterprise. The role treats builder experience as a product, using adoption, completion time, and reduced manual work to guide priorities and measure outcomes. It also drives adoption among peer platform teams, applies AI with appropriate safeguards and human review, and maintains operational excellence for business-critical services in 24x7 production environments.

The role requires technical judgment across architecture, APIs, workflows, multi-tenant systems, and failure analysis, alongside people leadership, clear communication, and the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous problems. The position is hybrid/flex, with work performed both onsite at Target HQ in Minnesota and virtually according to role, team, and task needs. Work duties cannot 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 engineering or software development experience.
• 1–3 years of team management experience, with a strong track record delivering cross-functional product experiences involving cloud hosting and product management.
• 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.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms, developer tooling, or shared services used by other teams.
• Experience driving platform or standard adoption 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 engineering workflows, including safeguards for safe deployment.
• 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.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with evolving technologies.
• Strong technical judgment, communication, and operational discipline, and ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of platform, full-stack, and AI engineers, and develop the team’s next generation of technical leaders.
• Deliver common services, beginning with Action Center and agentic remediation, as highly available, multi-tenant services relied upon across the enterprise.
• Partner with the Product Manager to identify builder friction, set adoption, completion, and manual-work-reduction targets, and hold the team accountable for outcomes.
• Help peer platform teams integrate with and adopt shared services, making them the preferred way to publish work and build future capabilities.
• Apply AI safely by automating work where agents are reliable, keeping people in the review loop where needed, and building builder trust.
• Operate business-critical 24x7 services with sound on-call health, operational discipline, and incident management.
• Build relationships with engineering leaders across Target, identify builder pain points and opportunities, and translate findings into the roadmap with the Product Manager.
• Represent the team in cross-domain architecture and enterprise planning forums.
• Coach and mentor engineers on architecture and modern engineering practices.
• Design, build, deploy, and operate production systems, including scalable APIs and microservices in multi-tenant environments.
• Instrument products with metrics, logs, and traces to support observability.
• Develop an inclusive, accountable engineering culture aligned to enterprise outcomes.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance, among other health benefits and programs, for eligible team members and dependents.
• 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