Sr Engineer - Compute Virtualization

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 .

We are looking for a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available compute and private cloud infrastructure at scale. This role requires strong software engineering fundamentals combined with hands-on expertise in Go, Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and production operations. Understanding of Kubernetes and docker/containers is a plus.

Education Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus.

Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in software development and cloud concepts/infrastructure

What You’ll Bring

5+ years of relevant software/platform engineering experience with a 4 years bachelor’s degree.

Core Technical Skills

• Programming: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and solid understanding of data structures, algorithms,

concurrency, and software design.

• Linux & Virtualization: Hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu, KVM, libvirt, or comparable server virtualization technologies.
• Containers: Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies such as containerd/Docker.
• Distributed Services: Experience building microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Infrastructure: Strong fundamentals in compute, networking, storage, load balancing, high availability, security, and failure recovery.
• Automation: Experience with Ansible or comparable infrastructure automation/configuration-management tools.
• Observability: Hands-on experience with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, or equivalent observability platforms.
• Testing: Experience building unit, integration, and automated infrastructure/service tests.
• Engineering Practices: Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and production software-development practices.
• Production Operations: Proven experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Deep knowledge of virtualization, container runtimes, distributed systems, or infrastructure platform engineering.
• Understanding of docker/container

What You’ll Do

• Design and build scalable, resilient compute infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop production-quality services and infrastructure components using Go (Golang).
• Build and operate virtualization platforms using KVM, libvirt, and Linux.
• Develop REST/gRPC APIs and microservices for infrastructure automation and platform capabilities.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and operational workflows using tools such as Ansible.
• Build observability into platforms using Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization.
• Improve platform availability, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and failure recovery.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and collaborate with partner teams on architecture and platform

decisions