Engineering Senior Manager Jobs in Minnesota
Engineering Senior Manager jobs in Minnesota are open across Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, and Saint Paul and other Minnesota metros, with employers like Ryan Companies US, Target, and Optum hiring at every experience level. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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COMPENSATION
- The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00
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 https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
INTRODUCTION
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 engineers to deliver secure, high performing systems at enterprise scale.
About the Observability Team
Reliability is foundational to delivering on Target’s purpose. Every register scan, Drive Up order, search result, inventory update, and fulfillment workflow depends on systems that are resilient, measurable, and continuously improving.
The Observability team builds and operates the enterprise platform that enables engineering teams to understand, measure, and improve the reliability and performance of their products. We provide standardized telemetry, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, system maps, and operational insights across more than 20,000 services.
Our platform enables:
- Enterprise scale metrics, logs, and traces built on OpenTelemetry standards
- Real time system maps and dependency graphs across complex service ecosystems
- SLO management, error budget tracking, and reliability showback
- Integrated alerting, on call alignment, and actionable operational insights
- AI driven root cause analysis and automated remediation capabilities
We operate at massive scale in 24 by 7 production environments. Technologies commonly used across the team include Golang, Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, InfluxDB, Grafana, and React that support high volume telemetry pipelines.
We are moving beyond traditional monitoring. Our ambition is to build an intelligent, agent enabled observability platform that proactively detects degradation, explains system behavior, and recommends or executes recovery actions before guests are impacted.
About the Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead one of three engineering teams delivering enterprise observability capabilities. You will partner closely with peer managers, product, and a Principal Engineer to shape the technical roadmap and deliver a unified, intelligent reliability platform for Target Tech.
You will be accountable for:
- Building and leading a high performing team of platform and full stack engineers
- Delivering mission critical, highly available observability systems
- Scaling telemetry pipelines and analytics across thousands of applications
- Embedding reliability and operational excellence directly into developer workflows
- Representing your team in cross domain architecture and enterprise planning forums
At Target scale, you will lead engineers solving distributed systems and reliability challenges that are not documented in standard playbooks.
Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, clear communication, operational discipline, and the ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments.
Why This Role Is Compelling
This role sits at the center of one of Target’s top enterprise priorities. You will directly shape how reliability, performance, and operational intelligence are delivered across the company.
You will:
- Influence how thousands of engineers build and operate software
- Shape the evolution from reactive monitoring to AI assisted and autonomous reliability
- Protect revenue, brand trust, and guest experience through resilient platform design
- Lead engineers solving distributed systems challenges at enterprise retail scale
- Play a visible role in advancing Target’s intelligence powered architecture
If you are motivated by scale, impact, and deep technical challenges, this role offers all three.
What Success Looks Like
Within 12 to 18 months, you will have:
- Increased SLO coverage and reliability visibility across production applications
- Reduced mean time to detect and mean time to engage during critical incidents
- Expanded standard telemetry adoption and improved operational data quality
- Delivered measurable improvements in developer experience for reliability workflows
- Built a strong, inclusive, and accountable engineering culture aligned to enterprise outcomes
About You
You are a technical leader first and a people leader always. You are comfortable engaging in architecture discussions, telemetry design, distributed systems, and failure analysis while coaching engineers and managers to grow in scope and influence.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 1–3 years of people leadership or equivalent delivery ownership.
- Proven experience building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems and high-performance APIs at scale.
- Strong background in resilient production architecture, reliability engineering, and raising engineering standards.
- Demonstrated product leadership (roadmaps, OKRs, migration execution) and experience with contract-driven or schema-governed platforms.
- Track record of building and developing high-performing teams within large enterprise environments.
- Ability to influence cross-domain stakeholders and drive alignment across complex ecosystems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Deep understanding of Agile, CI/CD, and incremental value delivery.
Preferred:
- Knowledge of Target infrastructure and platform services, vendor management experience, and leading geographically distributed teams.
Desired experience includes:
- Coaching and mentoring engineers on architecture and modern engineering practices
- Supporting and operating 24 by 7 business critical capabilities
- Building and operating large scale telemetry or data intensive distributed systems
- Designing and deploying scalable APIs and microservices
- Instrumenting products with metrics, logs, and traces to make them observable by default
- Utilizing version control systems such as Git
- Working in Linux or Unix based environments
- Communicating complex technical solutions clearly across diverse audiences
- Working effectively across multiple teams in a product-oriented environment
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
COMPENSATION
- The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00
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 https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
INTRODUCTION
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 engineers to deliver secure, high performing systems at enterprise scale.
About the Observability Team
Reliability is foundational to delivering on Target’s purpose. Every register scan, Drive Up order, search result, inventory update, and fulfillment workflow depends on systems that are resilient, measurable, and continuously improving.
The Observability team builds and operates the enterprise platform that enables engineering teams to understand, measure, and improve the reliability and performance of their products. We provide standardized telemetry, logging, tracing, metrics, alerting, system maps, and operational insights across more than 20,000 services.
Our platform enables:
- Enterprise scale metrics, logs, and traces built on OpenTelemetry standards
- Real time system maps and dependency graphs across complex service ecosystems
- SLO management, error budget tracking, and reliability showback
- Integrated alerting, on call alignment, and actionable operational insights
- AI driven root cause analysis and automated remediation capabilities
We operate at massive scale in 24 by 7 production environments. Technologies commonly used across the team include Golang, Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, InfluxDB, Grafana, and React that support high volume telemetry pipelines.
We are moving beyond traditional monitoring. Our ambition is to build an intelligent, agent enabled observability platform that proactively detects degradation, explains system behavior, and recommends or executes recovery actions before guests are impacted.
About the Role
As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead one of three engineering teams delivering enterprise observability capabilities. You will partner closely with peer managers, product, and a Principal Engineer to shape the technical roadmap and deliver a unified, intelligent reliability platform for Target Tech.
You will be accountable for:
- Building and leading a high performing team of platform and full stack engineers
- Delivering mission critical, highly available observability systems
- Scaling telemetry pipelines and analytics across thousands of applications
- Embedding reliability and operational excellence directly into developer workflows
- Representing your team in cross domain architecture and enterprise planning forums
At Target scale, you will lead engineers solving distributed systems and reliability challenges that are not documented in standard playbooks.
Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, clear communication, operational discipline, and the ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments.
Why This Role Is Compelling
This role sits at the center of one of Target’s top enterprise priorities. You will directly shape how reliability, performance, and operational intelligence are delivered across the company.
You will:
- Influence how thousands of engineers build and operate software
- Shape the evolution from reactive monitoring to AI assisted and autonomous reliability
- Protect revenue, brand trust, and guest experience through resilient platform design
- Lead engineers solving distributed systems challenges at enterprise retail scale
- Play a visible role in advancing Target’s intelligence powered architecture
If you are motivated by scale, impact, and deep technical challenges, this role offers all three.
What Success Looks Like
Within 12 to 18 months, you will have:
- Increased SLO coverage and reliability visibility across production applications
- Reduced mean time to detect and mean time to engage during critical incidents
- Expanded standard telemetry adoption and improved operational data quality
- Delivered measurable improvements in developer experience for reliability workflows
- Built a strong, inclusive, and accountable engineering culture aligned to enterprise outcomes
About You
You are a technical leader first and a people leader always. You are comfortable engaging in architecture discussions, telemetry design, distributed systems, and failure analysis while coaching engineers and managers to grow in scope and influence.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 1–3 years of people leadership or equivalent delivery ownership.
- Proven experience building and operating cloud-native, distributed systems and high-performance APIs at scale.
- Strong background in resilient production architecture, reliability engineering, and raising engineering standards.
- Demonstrated product leadership (roadmaps, OKRs, migration execution) and experience with contract-driven or schema-governed platforms.
- Track record of building and developing high-performing teams within large enterprise environments.
- Ability to influence cross-domain stakeholders and drive alignment across complex ecosystems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Deep understanding of Agile, CI/CD, and incremental value delivery.
Preferred:
- Knowledge of Target infrastructure and platform services, vendor management experience, and leading geographically distributed teams.
Desired experience includes:
- Coaching and mentoring engineers on architecture and modern engineering practices
- Supporting and operating 24 by 7 business critical capabilities
- Building and operating large scale telemetry or data intensive distributed systems
- Designing and deploying scalable APIs and microservices
- Instrumenting products with metrics, logs, and traces to make them observable by default
- Utilizing version control systems such as Git
- Working in Linux or Unix based environments
- Communicating complex technical solutions clearly across diverse audiences
- Working effectively across multiple teams in a product-oriented environment
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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Engineering Senior Manager Job Market in Minnesota
A snapshot from current Minnesota openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Ryan Companies US5
- Target5
- Optum3
- Abbott2
- Affirm2
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services9
- Construction & Real Estate5
- Retail5
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals3
- Banking & Financial Services2
What Minnesota Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in engineering senior manager jobs across Minnesota.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or a closely related technical field
- Seven or more years of engineering experience with at least three in people management
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and align engineering with business goals
- Proficiency with Agile or similar project management methodologies
- Experience owning engineering budgets, headcount planning, and resource allocation
- Strong communication skills for presenting technical decisions to executive stakeholders
Engineering Senior Manager Jobs in Minnesota: Frequently Asked Questions
How many engineering senior manager jobs are there in Minnesota?
There are 30+ engineering senior manager openings in Minnesota on Migrate Mate as of June 2026, with the most roles in Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, and Saint Paul. New positions post regularly as employers across Minnesota hire.
Which Minnesota cities have the most engineering senior manager jobs?
Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park, and Saint Paul have the most engineering senior manager openings in Minnesota right now, with additional roles spread across smaller metros statewide.
Which companies hire engineering senior managers in Minnesota?
Employers hiring engineering senior managers in Minnesota include Ryan Companies US, Target, and Optum, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026.
Are there remote engineering senior manager jobs in Minnesota?
Yes. About 43% of engineering senior manager openings tied to Minnesota are remote or hybrid as of June 2026. The rest are on-site roles based in Minnesota metros.
How do I apply for engineering senior manager jobs in Minnesota?
You can apply to engineering senior manager jobs in Minnesota directly on Migrate Mate. Search the listings above, find roles that match your experience and preferred Minnesota location, then apply to each one that fits.
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