Lead Engineer, Cloud Security (Software Developer)

Target

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$132,000–$238,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
8 days ago
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Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail

Target currently has 100 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Lead Engineer, Cloud Security (Software Developer)

As a Lead Engineer on the Cloud Security team, you will serve as a senior software developer responsible for building and owning the services that transform cloud security signals into actionable data. You will lead the design, development, and operation of a finding pipeline that ingests signals from CSPM, CNAPP, IaC scanning, and workload protection to deduplicate, enrich, and route findings to enterprise remediation workflows. You will build scalable backend services using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot, while managing data contracts and APIs. Key responsibilities include owning ownership-attribution logic, managing noise reduction, and integrating with SIEM, SOAR, and CI/CD systems. You will provide technical direction for other engineers, ensuring high availability and observability for production systems within a cloud-native architecture.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design, development, and operation of the cloud security finding pipeline to ingest, normalize, and route security signals.
  • Build scalable backend services using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot with clean APIs and clear data contracts.
  • Own the end-to-end ownership-attribution and noise-reduction logic to ensure security findings are accurate and actionable.
  • Integrate backend services into the enterprise ecosystem, including SIEM/SOAR, ticketing systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Set the technical direction, standards, and roadmap for the software portfolio while mentoring other software engineers.
  • Operate production services by owning availability, performance, observability, and on-call response for established SLOs.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align security requirements, telemetry handoffs, and remediation workflows.
  • Drive multi-quarter initiatives from initial problem framing through design, rollout, and steady-state operation.

What we're looking for

  • A 4-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience is required.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, platform-oriented backend systems is required.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot, plus fluency in at least one other modern language, is required.
  • Demonstrated experience as a tech lead owning a software capability end-to-end at enterprise scale is required.
  • Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed, event-driven, and data-intensive backend services in production is required.
  • Strong experience with relational databases, cloud-based data warehouses, and event-streaming technologies like Kafka or Pub/Sub is required.
  • Hands-on experience with public cloud (GCP preferred), containers, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) at enterprise scale is required.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or risk-sensitive production environments is preferred.

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