Senior Engineering Manager - Observability

Target Inc

Brooklyn Park, MN, United States
$132,000.00 - $238,000.00 py
Hybrid/flex for your day
Enterprise scale observability platform
High-volume telemetry pipelines
Distributed systems reliability
Target Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Observability team, responsible for leading engineering efforts to enhance reliability and performance across its technology platforms. The role demands a blend of technical expertise in distributed systems and leadership skills to foster high-performing teams

Job Summary

  • Lead one of three engineering teams delivering enterprise observability capabilities, partnering with peer managers, product, and a Principal Engineer to shape the technical roadmap.
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of platform and full stack engineers, delivering mission-critical, highly available observability systems and scaling telemetry pipelines across thousands of applications.
  • Influence how thousands of engineers build and operate software, shaping the evolution from reactive monitoring to AI assisted and autonomous reliability, and protecting revenue, brand trust, and guest experience.

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Target Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its Observability team, responsible for leading engineering efforts to enhance reliability and performance across its technology platforms. The role demands a blend of technical expertise in distributed systems and leadership skills to foster high-performing teams.

Salary

$132,000.00 - $238,000.00

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Enterprise scale observability platform
  • High-volume telemetry pipelines
  • Distributed systems reliability
  • Cloud-native distributed systems
  • Agile, CI/CD, incremental delivery

Nice-to-have

  • AI driven root cause analysis
  • Proactive degradation detection
  • Geographically distributed teams

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years software engineering experience
  • 1-3 years people leadership
  • Cloud-native, distributed systems experience
  • Resilient production architecture background
  • Product leadership experience
  • High-performing team building experience
  • Cross-domain stakeholder influence

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