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This role pays more than
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
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versus about
$208k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Target
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
92 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$98,000–$176,000
across 67 roles with salary data.
The Principal Engineer - Merchandising Capabilities joins the Merchandising Capabilities team to build and evolve foundational technology for planning, managing, and executing merchandising experiences at scale. This role involves setting long-term technical strategy and architecture for scalable, resilient, and secure services and APIs supporting pricing and promotions. You will lead the design of distributed systems, drive sound domain and data architecture, and establish engineering standards for cloud-native development, observability, and performance. Key responsibilities include mentoring technical talent, translating business strategy into technical direction, and managing technology lifecycles. Required skills include experience with Java, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Python, alongside expertise in Kubernetes, containerized workloads, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation. The work focuses on creating reusable platforms and consistent business rules within high-volume transaction and decisioning domains.
What does a Engineer earn in Minnesota?
Median $137000 from 37 postings across 5 companies.
Set the long-term technical strategy and architecture for merchandising capabilities across multiple portfolios.
Lead the design of scalable, secure, and highly available services and APIs for pricing and promotions.
Drive domain and data architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, and data contracts.
Establish engineering standards for API design, cloud-native development, observability, and operational readiness.
Translate business strategy into technical direction by evaluating trade-offs and validating decisions with prototypes.
Anticipate cross-platform technical risks and lead modernization efforts to balance delivery with long-term maintainability.
Champion agile engineering and DevOps practices, including automated testing and continuous delivery.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, coaching, and mentoring engineers across different teams.
What we're looking for
Four-year degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
12+ years of experience in technology development, software engineering, or technology services.
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 with demanding scalability, availability, and performance requirements.
Experience with cloud technologies, containerized workloads (such as Kubernetes), CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations.
Strong programming and data technology experience in Java, SQL, NoSQL databases, and Python.
Demonstrated technical leadership, influence, collaboration, problem solving, planning, and organizational skills.
Experience in retail, merchandising, pricing, promotions, or other high-volume transaction and decisioning domains (preferred).
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