Senior Engineer – Workload Identity Platform (SPIFFE/SPIRE)

Target

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$98,000–$176,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

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This role $137k
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This role pays less than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $144,350–$217,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $137k versus about $181k for comparable roles.

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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 49 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer – Workload Identity Platform (SPIFFE/SPIRE)

As a Senior Engineer on the Workload Identity Platform team, you will design, build, and operate secure authentication and authorization solutions for applications and infrastructure using SPIFFE/SPIRE in cloud-native environments. Your responsibilities include deploying and configuring SPIRE Server and Agent infrastructure, managing trust domains, developing custom extensions, and integrating with Kubernetes. You will also mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and promote best practices across the enterprise. The role requires strong proficiency in Go, experience with Kubernetes, and hands-on knowledge of SPIFFE/SPIRE technologies such as X.509 SVIDs and JWT-SVIDs. This position is integral to establishing secure service-to-service communication within a large-scale technology ecosystem, addressing critical business needs for cloud-native workload identity solutions.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and support SPIFFE/SPIRE-based workload identity solutions.
  • Deploy, configure, and operate SPIRE Server and Agent infrastructure.
  • Develop custom SPIRE extensions and plugins for cloud-native environments.
  • Integrate SPIRE with Kubernetes to manage workload identities securely.
  • Troubleshoot complex identity and authentication issues in distributed systems.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
  • Hands-on experience with SPIFFE/SPIRE or equivalent technologies.
  • Strong proficiency in Go and building APIs/services in distributed systems.
  • Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications in Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in workload identity, authentication, and trust solutions.

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