Engineer

Location

Minnesota | United States

Job description

The pay range is $67,800.00 - $122,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at .

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 .

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.

The Cost Showback team plays a strategic role within Target Technology by providing cost transparency to teams accountable to those costs no matter where they are running (public or private cloud).  We strive to make this easy for teams to understand cost drivers so that optimization opportunities can be identified and prioritized.  We do this through building and maturing our FinOps capabilities using both cloud native and custom tooling. 

As an Engineer within Cost Showback, you will have the opportunity to start your FinOps career.  Your career will likely start in a data analytic capacity ensuring high quality cost data for our customers and helping identify strategic optimization.  As you learn more about the data your role will likely automate the identification of those patterns within the data and present them to users in a meaningful way via our tooling.  This will involve supporting the existing FinOps platform and tooling we have built…but you won't be alone!  You will have the opportunity to tap into knowledge from the existing FinOps team learning/applying your knowledge of data & engineering skills.

Core Responsibilities:

• Ensure high quality cloud cost data available for customers via our data pipelines
• Help us evolve optimization patterns of cloud workloads
• Create visibility of those optimization patterns via our tooling
• Work on reports for management and decision makers in terms of cost
• Participate in cost governance processes as needed
• Analyze / Exploit savings mechanisms of cloud providers (committed use discounts)
• Consult with / help teams understand their cost data
• Develop a common understand of Target's technology stack in relation to cost and efficiency

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience with Git
• Basic programing / scripting skills (Python)
• Data Analytic / Science Concepts
• Report Writing
• Cloud Computing Services (GCP, Azure or AWS)

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• Software development experience
• Working knowledge on package-specific configuration and deployment along with ability to build custom solutions
• Demonstrates strong proficiency in core development platforms
• Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities
• Clearly communicates Agile concepts to partners within product team
• Demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of own work on the team and/or guests
• Writes and organizes code
• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them.
• Influences and applies data standards, policies, and procedures
• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Passionate about technology and how cloud costing works

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Supply Chain Facility or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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