# Principal Engineer

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $168,000.00 - $303,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to join our Merchandising Capabilities team at Target. As a Principal Engineer, you will set the strategy for software development and/or infrastructure engineering at Target. You will lead and approve software and infrastructure engineering efforts to meet functional and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Set the long-term technical strategy and architecture for merchandising capabilities, aligning platform investments and engineering roadmaps to business priorities across multiple teams and portfolios.

- Lead the design and evolution of scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available services and APIs that support pricing, promotions, and other merchandising workflows across Target's technology ecosystem.

- Drive sound domain and data architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data contracts, business-rule ownership, and consistency across systems.

- Establish engineering standards and reference architectures for API design, event-driven integration, cloud-native development, observability, performance, reliability, security, and operational readiness.

- Partner with product and business leaders, Enterprise Architecture, and engineering teams to translate business strategy into technical direction.

- Anticipate and address cross-platform technical risks, complexity, and technology lifecycle needs.

- Champion agile engineering and DevOps practices, including automated testing, continuous delivery, production health, incident learning, and measurable service-level objectives.

- Provide technical leadership across teams through architecture reviews, design guidance, coaching, and mentorship.

Requirements:

- Four-year degree in a related field or equivalent experience, with a commitment to continuous learning and staying current with relevant engineering practices and technologies.

- 12+ years of experience in technology development, software engineering, or technology services, including delivery of complex, production-grade systems.

- 4+ years of experience setting technical strategy, shaping architecture, and influencing engineering direction across teams or portfolios.

- Deep experience designing distributed systems and service-oriented architectures, including APIs, integration patterns, data modeling, and systems with demanding scalability, availability, performance, and reliability requirements.

- Experience with cloud technologies, containerized workloads and orchestration (such as Kubernetes), CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations.

- Strong programming and data technology experience, such as Java, SQL and NoSQL databases, and Python.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short term disability

- Long term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- SQL
- NoSQL databases
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- infrastructure automation
- observability
- production operations

### Nice to have
- retail
- merchandising
- pricing
- promotions

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