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Lead Security Engineer – Threat Management Platforms, Integrations

Target

. Set technical direction and lead the design of complex, multi-component Threat Management systems .

Posted 11/4/2026full-timeBrooklyn Park • Minnesota • United StatesSenior💰 $132,000 - $238,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in backend and platform engineering, particularly with APIs, services, and data-intensive applications. Proven ability to lead the design of complex systems while ensuring security, observability, and performance across Threat Management workflows.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend EngineeringAPI DevelopmentData Pipeline EngineeringGoogle Cloud BigQueryCybersecurity Engineering

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringProduction SystemsData ModelsWorkflow OrchestrationAutomated TestingCI/CDMulti-Component SystemsEvent-Driven WorkflowsTelemetry InvestigationTechnical Design
Soft Skills
MentoringCommunicationProblem-SolvingJudgment
Tools & Technologies
GitCloud EnvironmentsAnalytical Data Platforms
Industry Keywords
Threat ManagementDetection LifecycleObservabilityAI-Assisted EngineeringData Quality

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
BigQueryCloudCyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Set technical direction and lead the design of complex, multi-component Threat Management systems
  • Translate ambiguous operational needs into durable architectures and executable plans
  • Design, build, and evolve Threat Management products and derived data capabilities across APIs, integrations, workflow orchestration, datasets, models, services, and user-facing applications
  • Engineer detection-lifecycle capabilities for rule authorship, validation, deployment, state verification, synchronization, and exception handling
  • Build measurement and observability foundations to assess efficacy and performance and drive evidence-based improvements
  • Partner with Threat Management leadership and practitioners to frame problems and determine engineering responses
  • Own products and platforms, including reliability, security, performance, maintainability, observability, support, lifecycle, and production incident response
  • Improve data-feed quality, reduce noise, and increase confidence in detection outcomes across platforms and teams
  • Define testing, quality-gate, release, rollback, and change-management strategies
  • Elevate engineering quality through technical and design reviews, code reviews, pair programming, mentoring, and coaching
  • Communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and risk to engineering partners and leadership
  • Establish guardrails for safe and effective use of AI in engineering and Threat Management workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems
  • Strong backend and platform engineering experience with APIs, services, integrations, workflow orchestration, and data-intensive applications
  • Meaningful frontend engineering experience building modern, intuitive user-facing applications and workflows
  • Experience building data pipelines, curated datasets, analytical or historical data models, and reusable data capabilities
  • 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 involving detection content, telemetry, adversary behavior, threat coverage, and defensive-system tradeoffs
  • Ability to develop expertise in unfamiliar systems, data feeds, and emerging threats
  • Ability to investigate telemetry and threat behaviors and improve detection coverage and signal quality
  • Ability to define technical designs and evolve architecture through production operation, including security, observability, scalability, resilience, and supportability
  • Ability to resolve ambiguous requirements involving multiple teams or systems and communicate technical decisions clearly
  • Experience leading design and code reviews, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards
  • Sound judgment in applying AI-assisted engineering and analytical techniques
  • Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation
  • Financial, education, and well-being benefits and programs
  • Remote work arrangement may allow working full-time from home or an alternate location
  • Remote team members may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year