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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026

Lead Security Engineer - Threat Management Platforms & Integrations

Target Brooklyn Park, MN Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$132,000 - $238,000 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Lead Security Engineer to join our Threat Management Engineering team. As a Lead Engineer, you will set technical direction and lead the design of complex, multi-component Threat Management systems. You will design, build, and evolve consumable Threat Management products and derived data capabilities across APIs, integrations, workflow orchestration, curated datasets, historical models, services, and user-facing applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Set technical direction and lead the design of complex, multi-component Threat Management systems
  • Design, build, and evolve consumable Threat Management products and derived data capabilities
  • Lead engineering of detection-lifecycle capabilities
  • Build trustworthy measurement and observability foundations
  • Partner closely with Threat Management leadership and practitioners
  • Take durable ownership of products and platforms
  • Develop deep, authoritative understanding of critical data feeds
  • Define and own testing, quality-gate, release, rollback, and change-management strategies
  • Elevate engineering quality across teams
  • Communicate technical direction, tradeoffs, and risk clearly
  • Model and influence safe, effective use of AI in engineering and Threat Management workflows

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong backend and platform engineering experience
  • Meaningful frontend engineering experience
  • Experience building data pipelines, curated datasets, analytical or historical data models
  • Experience designing and integrating multi-component systems
  • Experience with Git-based development workflows, CI/CD, automated validation and testing
  • Experience working in public or private cloud environments
  • Practical cybersecurity engineering or operations experience
  • Demonstrated ability to rapidly develop deep expertise in unfamiliar systems
  • Ability to investigate telemetry and threat behaviors
  • Demonstrated ability to define technical designs and evolve architecture
  • Demonstrated ability to resolve ambiguous requirements
  • Experience leading design and code reviews, mentoring engineers
  • Sound judgment in applying AI-assisted engineering and analytical techniques

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • backend engineering
  • frontend engineering
  • data pipelines
  • curated datasets
  • analytical data models
  • Git-based development workflows
  • CI/CD
  • automated validation and testing
  • cloud environments
  • cybersecurity engineering
  • operations
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