Principal Software Engineer, Pricing Platform
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This role pays less than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $152,975–$234,065 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $137k versus about $194k 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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As a Sr Engineer - Price Publish (Price Decision Engine), you will join the Price Publish team responsible for processing and publishing price changes across enterprise stores and digital platforms. You will contribute to both the existing production platform and the new PDEv2 architecture, focusing on improving scalability, throughput, and performance while delivering new business capabilities. Your daily work involves designing and implementing robust systems, conducting code reviews, triaging operational issues, and leading architectural discussions. The role requires expertise in Java, Kotlin, and building distributed backend services using Apache Kafka for event processing. You will also develop high-volume REST APIs and manage data across relational databases like Oracle or PostgreSQL, as well as NoSQL databases such as Cassandra. This position addresses the critical business problem of ensuring accurate and timely price updates through high-performance, scalable, and secure software delivery.
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