Lead Engineer - Incident Response Engineering

About the role

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

Responsibilities

• Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized areas of the technology domain
• Design, build, and enhance internal applications, services, and workflows that support insider risk detection, user risk assessment, and incident response operations
• Help mature and become the subject matter expert for an internally developed UEBA capability, including detection workflows, enrichment, scoring, and analyst-facing investigation experiences
• Contribute across the broader Incident Response Engineering portfolio, including SOAR, artifact collection, and related internal platforms
• Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership
• Lead design, code review, testing, debugging, and implementation activities at the application level
• Partner with engineers, analysts, and cross-functional teams to translate operational needs into scalable technical solutions
• Support data pipeline and workflow capabilities that improve data visibility, operational effectiveness, and coverage for current tooling gaps
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and help resolve complex operational and engineering issues through durable solutions

Requirements

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production
• Strong problem solving and thought partnership skills
• Demonstrated sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements
• Expertise in frontend and backend development
• Expertise in JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and Python
• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and web-based services
• Experience building internal applications, workflow systems, or analyst-facing tools
• Experience with SOAR platforms or security automation tools preferred
• Experience with UEBA, insider risk, behavioral analytics, or detection engineering preferred
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases preferred
• Familiarity with identity and access patterns, including RBAC and Active Directory / LDAP integrations, preferred
• Familiarity with data pipelines or data-processing workflows is a strong plus

Qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and contribute across multiple Incident Response Engineering tools and platforms

Skills

• Technical acumen
• Software development experience
• Problem solving and thought partnership skills
• Frontend and backend development expertise
• REST APIs and web-based services integration
• Internal application and workflow system development
• SOAR platforms or security automation tools experience
• UEBA, insider risk, behavioral analytics, or detection engineering experience
• Data pipelines or data-processing workflows familiarity

Benefits

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.

Pay

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.

Schedule

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.