Sr Engineering Manager - Target India

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Senior Engineering Manager, Container Controlplane
Working at Target means shaping experiences for hundreds of millions of guests while operating one of the largest retail technology platforms in the world. We are a Fortune 50 company with more than 450,000 team members globally.
Technology is one of Target's top four enterprise priorities. It plays an outsized role in powering growth, speed, reliability, and innovation across the company. From merchandising and supply chain to stores and digital, our technology platforms directly enable the most critical outcomes for 2026 and beyond.
Target Tech builds and operates the intelligence-powered architecture that fuels these outcomes. Our teams design scalable platforms, modern data ecosystems, and resilient infrastructure that allow thousands of builders to deliver secure, intelligent, and high-performing products at enterprise scale.
About the Container Controlplane Team
The Container Controlplane team is responsible for the Managed Containers experience in TAP and for orchestrating the deployment of team applications to each supported location, including on-prem environments, GCP, stores, and distribution centers.
This team is managed across Target US and Target India, with co-leadership from the manager in each location. The team owns the APIs that power the Managed Containers experience in TAP, as well as the deployment pipeline used to create, update, and delete Managed Container workloads.
Container Controlplane sits at the intersection of platform engineering, distributed systems, developer experience, orchestration, and operational reliability. The team is responsible for enabling a consistent, scalable, and self-service experience for teams that build and deploy the applications Target relies on to run its business.
Today the team enables:
Managed Containers capabilities in TAP for application teams across on-prem, GCP, stores, and distribution centers.
Deployment orchestration for creating, updating, and deleting Managed Container workloads.
Placement decisions for workloads across supported locations.
Health and status management for running workloads through service discovery and control mechanisms.
Sidecar configuration for proxy authentication and observability.
Access control and deployment workflows for specialized provider locations such as GCP and store/distribution center environments.
Self-service deployment experiences that allow teams to deploy workloads at will.
Our strategic thesis: Managed Containers are not just a deployment abstraction. They are a platform capability that must make it easy for Target teams to run applications wherever the business needs them, while still providing strong reliability, security, and operational consistency across a highly distributed environment.
About the Role
As Senior Engineering Manager for Container Controlplane, you will lead the engineering team responsible for building, operating, and evolving Target’s Managed Containers controlplane. You will co-lead the function with your US counterpart, manage the Target India team, and help shape the technical and operational direction of the platform.
This is a balanced leadership role. You will be expected to provide strong people leadership, delivery execution, and technical guidance. You will not simply manage a backlog. You will help make decisions about platform APIs, placement logic, deployment workflows, workload health, access control, sidecar behavior, and the gradual evolution of the platform as Target modernizes how container workloads are orchestrated across supported environments.
You will help establish the new sister team in TI, partner closely with the US leader counterpart, and jointly drive roadmap execution for the second half of 2026. A key priority for the team will be helping accelerate Availability Zone adoption as part of Data Center Modernization.
You will also help the team evolve capabilities currently owned by the controlplane, including spinning off inherited capabilities where appropriate and reducing dependency on HashiCorp services such as Consul and Vault as Target scales its container workload platform.
You Will Be Accountable For
Team leadership: Leading, coaching, and developing a growing engineering team responsible for Container Controlplane capabilities in Target India.
Managed Containers delivery: Shipping reliable, scalable, and secure control plane capabilities that support the Managed Containers experience in TAP.
Deployment orchestration: Owning the deployment pipeline and orchestration services used to create, update, and delete Managed Container workloads across supported locations.
Platform API delivery: Delivering high-quality backend platform services and APIs that provide a consistent, self-service experience for Target engineering teams.
Workload placement and control: Maintaining and improving the placement engine for workloads across supported environments, including on-prem, GCP, stores, and distribution centers.
Workload health and status: Ensuring the platform can accurately represent the health and status of running workloads and provide dependable control plane behavior.
Security and access control: Partnering with infrastructure, networking, and security teams to manage access controls for provider locations and ensure the deployment experience remains secure and appropriate for each environment.
Technical direction and roadmap: Co-owning roadmap and architecture decisions with the US leader counterpart, while helping shape engineering practices, delivery execution, and technical standards.
Operational health: Owning the operational health of the team’s services, including incident response readiness, reliability improvements, and service maturity.
Cross-functional execution: Partnering closely with the US sister