Principal Engineer, Observability
Target
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This role pays less than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $152,875–$220,112 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $106k versus about $186k for comparable roles.
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Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail
Target currently has 58 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 58 roles with salary data.
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Engineer - Hardware Observability serves as a technical specialist within the Infrastructure organization, focusing on building, maintaining, and improving reliable data pipelines for hardware observability data. The role involves developing and maintaining data schemas, ETL processes, validation checks, and pipeline tooling to collect and transform infrastructure telemetry and metadata. You will partner with SecOps, DevOps, and Observability teams to ensure data is available, trusted, and easy to use while contributing to documentation for data definitions and lineage. Required skills include proficiency in at least one general programming language like Python or Java, along with a domain-specific language for pipeline development. Candidates must understand ETL/ELT patterns, batch and streaming processing, and schema evolution. The role addresses the technical challenge of providing reliable infrastructure telemetry and metadata to support internal engineering consumers across various operational use cases.
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Median $185000 from 249 postings across 48 companies.
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