Senior Engineer, Security Visibility Infrastructure

Target

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary: $98,000–$176,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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 99 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Security Visibility Infrastructure

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The Senior Engineer – Security Visibility Infrastructure joins the Target Technology Services team to own and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps. This role involves designing scalable improvements to ingestion pipelines, integrations, and data validation to ensure reliable shipment of high-criticality data feeds. You will build and enhance operational tooling using Python and regular expressions for parsing, validation, and transformations across formats like JSON, Syslog, CEF, and CSV/TSV. Key responsibilities include leading root-cause analysis, developing monitoring and alerting for platform SLOs, and managing migrations between provider platforms. You will solve technical problems related to telemetry quality and platform performance by applying distributed systems fundamentals, including timeouts, retries, and idempotency, to support the core cybersecurity mission and ensure reliable data flow for downstream threat management teams.

Skills

Google SecOps Chronicle Python SIEM JSON Syslog CEF CSV TSV APIs Regular Expressions Distributed Systems Log Ingestion Automation Monitoring Runbooks Root-Cause Analysis

What you'll do

Own and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps from source onboarding through reliable shipment.
Design and deliver scalable improvements to ingestion pipelines, integrations, and data validation.
Build and enhance ingestion integrations and operational tooling using Python and regular expressions.
Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across log pipelines as part of a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Implement preventative mechanisms through monitoring, runbooks, and automation to reduce incident recurrence.
Develop monitoring and alerting aligned to platform SLOs/SLAs to improve telemetry quality and timeliness.
Partner with security teams to deliver backward-compatible changes to high-criticality data feeds.

What we're looking for

A 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience is required.
Candidates must have 3+ years of software development and/or platform engineering experience.
Proven track record of building and operating systems in a public cloud environment is required.
Proficiency in Python is required.
Proficiency with regular expressions for parsing, extraction, and validation is required.
Experience integrating systems using APIs, including authentication and authorization concepts, is required.
Experience ingesting, transforming, and validating log/event data across various formats is required.
Demonstrated troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in production environments are required.

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