Senior Engineer – Security Visibility Infrastructure

Target

Hybrid Actively hiring

Brooklyn Park, MN Posted 88 days ago $98,000–$176,000 / year

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TL;DR

As a Senior SIEM Engineer at Target, you will join the Threat Management Engineering team to own and enhance log ingestion into Google SecOps, ensuring reliable data shipment for downstream teams. Your daily tasks include designing scalable improvements to ingestion pipelines, integrating systems using APIs, and validating data across various formats like JSON, Syslog, CEF, and CSV/TSV. You will collaborate with multiple cybersecurity teams to deliver high-quality changes while maintaining backward compatibility and operational readiness. Key responsibilities involve leading troubleshooting efforts in a 24/7 on-call rotation, developing monitoring and alerting mechanisms, and enhancing ingestion integrations using Python and regular expressions. This role demands strong systems thinking, proficiency in cloud environments, and experience with distributed systems to drive scalable improvements and prevent incidents through observability and automation.

Skills

Python Google Cloud Platform SIEM Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana JSON Syslog CEF CSV TSV APIs OAuth Monitoring Automation Regular Expressions Scalability Resilience Patterns On-Call Rotation

What you'll do

Own and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps from source through reliable shipment.
Design scalable improvements for ingestion pipelines, integrations, and data validation to ensure feed reliability.
Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis across log pipelines in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
Build and enhance operational tooling using Python and regular expressions for parsing and schema evolution.
Develop monitoring and alerting aligned with platform SLOs/SLAs to improve quality and reduce MTTR.

What we're looking for

3+ years of software development and platform engineering experience
Proficiency in Python and regular expressions for data manipulation
Experience with log ingestion, transformation, and validation across formats
Strong troubleshooting skills and root-cause analysis in production environments
Understanding of distributed systems and resilience patterns
Willingness to participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation

Market check

Salary context

This $98,000–$176,000 range sits above 17% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$119,382–$205,500

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400–$188,125

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Target

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 42 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $98,000–$176,000 across 42 roles with salary data.

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