Senior Engineer — Database Experience Platform

Target • Brooklyn Park, MN

18h • $98,000 - $176,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Engineer on the Database Experience (DBX) team, you will own and evolve the platform that powers managed database infrastructure for hundreds of engineering teams across Target. The DBX platform manages multiple RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies across on-prem Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and GCP.
You will work across the platform's core backend services — workflow automation, inventory, and lifecycle orchestration. Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of backend software engineering
• Strong proficiency in Java/Spring Boot or similar JVM frameworks
• Experience designing and building REST APIs and distributed systems
• Proven ability to own systems in production, including troubleshooting and reliability improvements
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Production Temporal experience — workflow versioning and replay determinism
• Familiarity with API-driven automation
• Understanding of infrastructure performance and topology concerns relevant to stateful database workloads
• Experience in creating and supporting UI/UX for internal platforms, including React/TypeScript and design systems
• Kafka producer/consumer patterns
• JPA/Hibernate database schema design
• Spock/Groovy testing
• Kubernetes familiarity (StatefulSets, PVCs, pod disruption budgets)
• Observability practices — metrics, distributed tracing, SLOs

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services that drive database lifecycle automation — provisioning, upgrades, HA conversion, snapshots, and decommission.
• Own systems end-to-end: design, implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Build and evolve durable Temporal workflows, including correctness, replay safety, and versioning for in-flight migrations.
• Contribute to platform modernization — migrating legacy automation to Temporal and integrating with next-generation infrastructure platforms.
• Maintain and support CI/CD pipelines, including build configuration and test automation
• Participate in design and code reviews; influence engineering standards and technical direction.
• Triage operational issues, improve observability, and eliminate repeat occurrences.
• Collaborate with DBAs, platform engineers, and product stakeholders to translate operational requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree