Senior Engineer, Developer Platform

Target

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Salary: $98,000–$176,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role pays less than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$198,431 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $137k versus about $175k for comparable roles.

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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Developer Platform

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The Sr Engineer - Developer Platform will join the Developer Productivity & Platform Engineering team to build and support a project generation system used by thousands of engineers. This role involves developing a full-stack platform that scaffolds fully configured codebases with approved patterns, security standards, and platform integrations. You will design abstractions for seamless infrastructure integrations and build AI-native agent interfaces for project generation directly from IDEs. Key responsibilities include shipping production REST APIs and managing distributed, multi-service codebases. Required technical skills include proficiency in JVM languages like Kotlin or Java, Python, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. You will also utilize CI/CD pipelines and developer platform tooling. The work focuses on improving developer experience by automating boilerplate and expanding into AI-assisted workflows and new infrastructure domains.

What does a Engineer earn in Minnesota?

Median $137000 from 37 postings across 5 companies.

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Skills

Kotlin Python TypeScript Java PostgreSQL REST APIs CI/CD React LLMs Jinja2 Cookiecutter Model Context Protocol (MCP)

What you'll do

Build and support a project generation system that scaffolds fully configured codebases for engineers.
Develop full-stack systems using Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript.
Design abstractions to make new infrastructure integrations seamless across the organization.
Build AI-native agent interfaces for generating projects directly from IDEs or coding assistants.
Define AI agents and skills to improve developer workflows.
Design and ship production REST APIs for internal platform use.
Manage and contribute to distributed, multi-service codebases.
Contribute to the technical roadmap for infrastructure domains and developer experience tools.

What we're looking for

5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Proficiency in JVM languages such as Kotlin or Java.
Experience designing and shipping production REST APIs.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and developer platform tooling.
Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational database systems.
Ability to navigate and contribute to distributed, multi-service codebases.
React/TypeScript frontend experience (preferred).
Python experience (preferred).

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