Target
Senior Engineer – Security Visibility Infrastructure
$98K–$176K
7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of software development and/or platform engineering experience.
- Education
- 4-year degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate reliable log-ingestion pipelines and SIEM integrations that support Target’s cybersecurity operations.
What you'll do
- Own and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps, including integrations, validation, and feed-health monitoring.
- Troubleshoot production pipelines, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements through monitoring, runbooks, and automation.
- Collaborate with security teams to deliver reliable, backward-compatible data feeds and participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of software development and/or platform engineering experience.
- Public-cloud systems experience and proficiency in Python and regular expressions.
- Experience with APIs and ingesting, transforming, and validating log/event data across standard and non-standard formats, including schema changes and backward compatibility.
- Production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills; understanding of distributed systems resilience patterns; willingness to join a shared 24/7 on-call rotation.
Pay
$98,000.00 - $176,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Google SecOps, Python, regular expressions, JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV
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