Lead Security Engineer, Threat Management Platforms & Integrations

Target

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$132,000–$238,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
15 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

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TL;DR · Lead Security Engineer, Threat Management Platforms & Integrations

The Lead Security Engineer - Threat Management Platforms & Integrations joins the CFC Threat Management Engineering team to build products, integrations, and technical platforms that enable and improve threat management. You will lead the design of complex, multi-component systems, translating operational needs into durable architectures. Day-to-day responsibilities include building APIs, services, workflow orchestration, and user-facing applications while evolving detection-lifecycle capabilities. You will develop data pipelines, curated datasets, and historical models to provide trustworthy measurement and observability. Required skills include backend and platform engineering, frontend experience, and proficiency with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, and automated testing. You must have experience with Google Cloud, specifically BigQuery, and possess practical cybersecurity engineering knowledge to reason about telemetry, adversary behavior, and defensive-system tradeoffs within a retail technology framework.

What you'll do

  • Set technical direction and design complex, multi-component Threat Management systems to meet operational needs.
  • Build and evolve consumable products including APIs, integrations, workflow orchestrations, and user-facing applications.
  • Lead the engineering of detection-lifecycle capabilities to simplify rule authorship, validation, and deployment.
  • Establish measurement and observability foundations to track system efficacy, performance, and reliability.
  • Own the full lifecycle of products, including security, performance, maintainability, and production incident response.
  • Improve signal quality and reduce noise by analyzing critical data feeds and telemetry.
  • Define and manage testing, quality-gate, release, and change-management strategies for interconnected systems.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical design reviews, and coaching-oriented feedback.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Strong backend and platform engineering experience building APIs, services, integrations, and workflow orchestration.
  • Meaningful frontend engineering experience building modern, intuitive user-facing applications and workflows.
  • Experience building data pipelines, curated datasets, and analytical or historical data models.
  • Experience designing and integrating multi-component systems across APIs, event-driven workflows, and data stores.
  • Experience with Git-based development workflows, CI/CD, automated validation, and safe production release practices.
  • Experience working in public or private cloud environments, specifically Google Cloud or BigQuery.
  • Practical cybersecurity engineering or operations experience to reason about detection content, telemetry, and adversary behavior.

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