Target
Principal Engineer - Merchandising Capabilities
$168K–$303K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in technology development, software engineering, or technology services; 4+ years setting technical strategy and shaping architecture.
- Education
- Four-year degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical strategy and architecture for scalable merchandising platforms and services supporting pricing, promotions, and related workflows across Target.
What you'll do
- Define long-term technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across teams and portfolios.
- Lead design and evolution of secure, reliable, scalable services, APIs, and data architecture for merchandising workflows.
- Guide cross-team technical decisions, modernization, operational practices, and engineer mentorship.
What they ask for
- Four-year degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of experience in technology development, software engineering, or technology services, including complex production-grade systems.
- 4+ years setting technical strategy, shaping architecture, and influencing engineering direction across teams or portfolios.
- Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures, cloud technologies, containerized workloads, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations.
Nice to have
- Experience in retail, merchandising, pricing, promotions, or other high-volume transaction and decisioning domains.
Pay
$168,000.00 - $303,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Java, SQL, NoSQL, Python
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