Target
Lead Engineer – Cloud Security (Security Governance)
$132K–$238K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; hands-on experience in technology, security engineering, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
- Education
- 4-year degree OR equivalent work experience
About the job
Leads engineering of cloud security governance workflows, services, and automation, enabling teams to onboard to security capabilities and manage findings and exception requests through traceable, evidence-based processes.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and build, integrate, and operate governance workflows for security onboarding, exceptions, findings, remediation, and evidence.
- Drive adoption across eligible cloud accounts and engineering teams through self-service, guidance, automation, and support.
- Establish governance reporting and production service practices, and partner across security, platform, and business teams on decisions and operational handoffs.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in technology, security engineering, platform engineering, or a related discipline, including building or operating capabilities in a large, complex organization.
- Experience owning an enterprise-scale technical capability as a senior IC or tech lead; designing security, risk, compliance, exception, or remediation workflows; and driving adoption across engineering teams.
- Experience building, integrating, or automating workflow-oriented services, APIs, data flows, or platforms; fluency in at least one general-purpose programming language.
- Hands-on public cloud experience; familiarity with cloud security controls and findings; and working knowledge of security frameworks and standards.
Nice to have
- Experience in cloud security, cybersecurity, security governance, GRC, or another risk-sensitive technology environment.
- Experience with CSPM/CNAPP, infrastructure-as-code scanning, Kubernetes admission controls, policy-as-code, or related security capabilities.
Pay
$132,000.00 - $238,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
GCP, AWS, Azure, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, ISO/IEC 27001, CSA CCM, Kubernetes
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