Principal Engineer - Merchandising Capabilities

The pay range is $168,000.00 - $303,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . About us:    Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.  Learn more about Target here .   As a Principal Engineer you set the strategy for software development and/or infrastructure engineering at Target. You set the direction for how software and infrastructure engineering efforts will be designed, developed, and operationalized across multiple portfolios and drives adoption across Target Tech. You lead and approve software and infrastructure engineering efforts to meet functional and non-functional requirements. You are a thought leader and mentor for internal and external technical talent and actively contribute to the external technical community.   About this Team: The Merchandising Capabilities team builds and evolves foundational technology that enables Target to plan, manage, and execute merchandising experiences at scale as part of Target’s leading with Merch enterprise priority. We partner across product, engineering, data, and business teams to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performing capabilities that support core merchandising workflows, including pricing and promotions. Our focus is on reusable platforms and APIs, clear domain boundaries, consistent data and business rules, and architecture that can adapt as Target’s business needs evolve.   Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you… • Set the long-term technical strategy and architecture for merchandising capabilities, aligning platform investments and engineering roadmaps to business priorities across multiple teams and portfolios. • Lead the design and evolution of scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available services and APIs that support pricing, promotions, and other merchandising workflows across Target’s technology ecosystem. • Drive sound domain and data architecture, including service boundaries, integration patterns, data contracts, business-rule ownership, and consistency across systems; guide teams toward solutions that are reusable and fit for enterprise scale. • Establish engineering standards and reference architectures for API design, event-driven integration, cloud-native development, observability, performance, reliability, security, and operational readiness. • Partner with product and business leaders, Enterprise Architecture, and engineering teams to translate business strategy into technical direction; evaluate trade-offs, quantify cost and risk, and use prototypes or proofs of concept to validate major decisions. • Anticipate and address cross-platform technical risks, complexity, and technology lifecycle needs; lead modernization and simplification while balancing near-term delivery with long-term maintainability. • Champion agile engineering and DevO