Data Engineer

Target; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

Target in Baton Rouge, LA is seeking an internship Data Engineer to contribute to projects that ship quickly. The role offers mentorship, meaningful projects, and growth as part of a team that ships fast.

The internship pays between $51,000 and $71,000, with real responsibilities including integrating tools, refining microservices, and building generative AI services within a live Target stack in Baton Rouge.

Qualifications

• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams.
• Track record that proves you can craft-obsessed ship under deadline pressure.
• Cross-functional ease, from Stress Management engineers to Hadoop marketers.
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy Organization versus build it for Target's Baton Rouge, LA stack.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Target stack.
• Decode the undocumented dbt service nobody at Target remembers writing.
• Refine and maintain microservices that support Target customers in Baton Rouge, LA.
• Slice the quality-obsessed technology monolith into Generative AI services Baton Rouge, LA can deploy alone.
• Sketch the SageMaker architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing.

Skills

Organizational skills

Ship under deadlines

Cross-functional collaboration

Fast learner

Job description

Code that ships to millions starts as a pull request on someone's screen, and at Target we want that someone to be our next Data Engineer. At Target, an internship Data Engineer earns $51,000 - $71,000, owns meaningful projects, and grows with a team that ships fast.

Key Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy Organization versus build it for Target's Baton Rouge, LA stack
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Target stack
• Decode the undocumented dbt service nobody at Target remembers writing
• Refine and maintain microservices that support Target customers in Baton Rouge, LA
• Slice the quality-obsessed technology monolith into Generative AI services Baton Rouge, LA can deploy alone
• Sketch the SageMaker architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing

What You'll Bring

• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
• Track record that proves you can craft-obsessed ship under deadline pressure
• Cross-functional ease, from Stress Management engineers to Hadoop marketers
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements

Target exists for one stubborn reason: the technology tools everyone settled for were never good enough, so we rebuilt them from Baton Rouge, LA. The remote-native pace here is real, but so is the permission to log off and recover.

We offer $51,000 - $71,000 and the things money cannot fake, real mentorship, lasting benefits, and flexibility you will actually use.

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