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Lead Engineer — Database Experience Platform (DBX)
Tar*** · Brooklyn Park, MN, United States
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Brooklyn Park, MN, United States132,000-238,000 USD/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
132,000-238,000 USD/yearly
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN, United States
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Job summary
The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 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, Tar*** cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.
Benefits
Find competitiveFrom financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.targeLead Engineer — Database Experience Platform (DBX)About the roleThe DBX platform manages multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databaseEligibilityPlease paste this url into your preferred browser to learn aboutEligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/ForYou_EAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodaTarget.com.
Qualifications
- These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications.
- into durable, well-designed solutions.
- Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, and test automation infrastructure.
- About You
- Required
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of backend software engineering, including at least one full-cycle implementation of a platform capability, infrastructure service, or major technical initiative from design through production operation
- Deep expertise in Java/Spring Boot or similar JVM frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy, lead architectural decisions, and drive cross-team alignment
- Proven track record owning systems in production — including incident response, reliability improvements, and operational excellence
- Strong proficiency designing and building REST APIs and distributed systems at scale
- Strong communication and collaboration
Responsibilities
- are described within this job description.
- may change at any time due to business needs.
- Set engineering standards for correctness, durability, and operational safety.
- Identify and drive platform modernization.
- Establish and raise the bar for observability, reliability, and production readiness: SLOs, alerting, runbooks, and eliminating repeat incidents.
- Define and own the architecture for database lifecycle automation — provisioning, upgrades, HA conversion, snapshots, decommission — across on-prem and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Lead full-cycle implementations of platform capabilities from design through production operation, including driving technical decisions, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and owning production outcomes.
- Influence architecture across adjacent systems making sound tradeoffs across performance, availability, scalability, security, and developer experience.
- Mentor and grow senior engineers; lead design and code reviews that shape team-wide engineering norms.
- Collaborate with DBAs, platform engineers, and product stakeholders to translate operational
- cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Tar***.
Skills
Communication
Degrees
AssociateDegree
Industry
AutomotiveEducationEnergyInsurancePublic-sector