Target
Lead Security Engineer - Threat Management Platforms & Integrations
$132K–$238K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Leads engineering for Threat Management platforms, integrations, data capabilities, and detection-lifecycle systems, from technical design through production ownership and continuous improvement.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and design multi-component systems, APIs, integrations, workflows, and data products.
- Lead detection-lifecycle engineering and establish measurement, observability, testing, release, and change-management practices.
- Own production platforms and products, partner with Threat Management teams, and mentor engineers while promoting safe, effective AI use.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Strong backend and platform engineering experience, meaningful frontend experience, and experience building data pipelines and data models.
- Experience with cloud environments; Google Cloud, particularly BigQuery, or comparable analytical data platforms is required.
- Practical cybersecurity engineering or operations experience; experience designing systems, safe production releases, and leading reviews and mentoring engineers.
Pay
$132,000.00 - $238,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Google Cloud, BigQuery, Git, CI/CD
AI focus
Model and influence safe, effective AI use in engineering and Threat Management workflows, applying guardrails for automation and human judgment; use AI-assisted engineering and analytical techniques appropriately.
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