Lead Security Engineer - Threat Management Platforms & Integrations

safe, effective use of AI in engineering and Threat Management workflows, establishing appropriate guardrails for where automation is useful and where human judgment remains necessary. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

CFC Threat Management Engineering | Lead Engineer (L6)

About you:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including ownership of complex problem spaces with a high degree of independence.
• Strong backend and platform engineering experience building APIs, services, integrations, workflow orchestration, and data-intensive applications.
• Meaningful frontend engineering experience building modern, intuitive user-facing applications and workflows, with the ability to work effectively across the full stack when the solution requires it.
• Experience building data pipelines, curated datasets, analytical or historical data models, and reusable data capabilities that support trustworthy metrics, analysis, and decision-making.
• Experience designing and integrating multi-component systems across APIs, event-driven workflows, data stores, and enterprise or third-party platforms.
• Experience with Git-based development workflows, CI/CD, automated validation and testing, and safe production release practices.
• Experience working in public or private cloud environments; experience with Google Cloud, particularly BigQuery, or comparable analytical data platforms is required.
• Practical cybersecurity engineering or operations experience sufficient to reason effectively about detection content, telemetry, adversary behavior, threat coverage, and defensive-system tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly develop deep expertise in unfamiliar systems, data feeds, and emerging threats, then translate that understanding into useful engineering, analytical, or detection outcomes.
• Ability to investigate telemetry and threat behaviors, understand the semantics and limitations of the underlying data, and develop nuanced pivots, correlations, and approaches to improving detection coverage and signal quality.
• Demonstrated ability to define technical designs and evolve architecture from concept through production operation, including security, observability, scalability, resilience, and supportability.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve ambiguous requirements involving multiple teams or systems, make sound technical tradeoffs, and communicate decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards across team boundaries.
• Sound judgment in applying AI-assisted engineering and analytical techniques, including understanding where automation improves outcomes and where human judgment remains necessary.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.