Lead Security Engineer - Threat Management Platforms & Integrations

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . Lead Security Engineer - Threat Management Platforms & Integrations (Remote) About us: Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out. About the role: CFC Threat Management Engineering (TME) is a function-aligned engineering capability supporting Threat Management across core detection workloads, application stacks, workflows. TME builds the products, integrations, derived data capabilities, and technical platforms required to enable, operate, measure, and continuously improve Threat Management. The team is designed to solve high-value engineering problems that span systems and workflows, with a slight emphasis on data engineering and the product breadth to turn those capabilities into durable, consumable platforms through APIs, services, automation, and user-facing applications. As a Lead Engineer, you will: Set technical direction and lead the design of complex, multi-component Threat Management systems translating ambiguous operational needs into durable architectures and executable plans while anticipating dependencies and improving cross-platform interoperability. 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, selecting the interaction model best suited to the problem. Lead engineering of detection-lifecycle capabilities that simplify rule authorship, validation, deployment, state verification, synchronization, and exception handling across multiple detection platforms. Build trustworthy measurement and observability foundations with clear definitions, assumptions, and lineage, enabling Threat Management to understand efficacy and performance, identify systemic friction, and drive evidence-based improvements in reliability, scalability, and engineering efficiency. Partner closely with Threat Management leadership and practitioners across the Threat Management function to frame problems, reconcile competing requirements, and determine the appropriate engineering response. Take durable ownership of products and platforms when TME is the appropriate long-term engineering home, including reliability, security, performance, maintainability, observability, support, technical lifecycle, and production incident response; drive durable corrective actions and improvements to resilience and support practices. Develop deep, authoritative understanding of critical data feeds and how they are used across Threat Management, then drive cross-platform, cross-team, and cross-pyramid efforts to reduce noise, improve signal quality, and increase confidence in detection outcomes. Define and own testing, quality-gate, release, rollback, and change-management strategies that enable safe, repeatable delivery across interconnected systems. Elevate engineering quality across teams through technical and design reviews, critical problem-solving, code review, pair programming, mentoring, and coaching-oriented feedback, helping engineers reason strategically about product, business, operational, security, and partner tradeoffs. Communicate technical direction , tradeoffs, and risk clearly to engineering partners, Threat Management leadership, Directors, and Sr. Directors, tying technology decisions to measurable outcomes. Model and influence safe, effective use of AI in engineering and Threat Management workflows, establishing appropriate guardrails for where automation is useful and where human judgment remains necessary. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. CFC Threat Management Engineering | Lead Engineer (L6) About you: 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems, including ownership of complex problem spaces with a high degree of independence. Strong backend and platform engineering experience building APIs, services, integrations, workflow orchestration, and data-intensive applications. Meaningful frontend engineering experience building modern, intuitive user-facing applications and workflows, with the ability to work effectivel