Backend Engineer, Email & Data Protection (Cybersecurity)

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 136,000; Full time

Job summary

Target is hiring an Engineer to serve as a technical specialist delivering backend software powering the email and data protection platform. You will design, implement, and maintain robust, secure services and APIs, contributing to code reviews and operations under guidance from senior engineers.

The role focuses on real-time data processing, security integrations, and scalable backend design within Target's cybersecurity ecosystem. A hybrid work model is available at the MN location.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot in a professional setting.
• Exposure to messaging or event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or JMS.
• Familiarity with cloud-native development in Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure automation.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs or backend services.
• Familiarity with observability concepts, including logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health monitoring.
• Interest in cybersecurity, email security, or highly available production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and other modern languages and frameworks.
• Contribute to distributed and event-driven services that ingest, process, scan, enrich, and route enterprise email data in real time.
• Build and enhance integrations with vended email security products, Target's Strelka platform,
• Google Security Operations, and related detection and alerting capabilities.
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, event-streaming components, data models, and service integrations using established engineering patterns.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate actively in code reviews, design discussions, sprint ceremonies, and technical documentation.
• Create and maintain automated unit, integration, contract, and regression tests to improve software quality and delivery confidence.
• Investigate and resolve production issues involving application behavior, data processing, and system integrations.
• Monitor service health, logs, metrics, alerts, and capacity; contribute to improvements in reliability and performance.
• Support database schema changes, data migrations, API updates, and backward-compatible service enhancements.
• Participate in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release, change-management, incident-management, and disaster-recovery activities.
• Partner with engineers, cybersecurity analysts, product partners, vendors, and stakeholders to deliver technical solutions.
• Contribute to research and proof-of-concept efforts involving emerging technologies, including responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Build knowledge of email processing, security platforms, and Target's cybersecurity ecosystem.

Skills

Java & Spring

Messaging systems

Cloud platforms

Docker & Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Target is hiring an Engineer to serve as a technical specialist delivering backend software powering the email and data protection platform. You will design, implement, and maintain robust, secure services and APIs, contributing to code reviews and operations under guidance from senior engineers.

The role focuses on real-time data processing, security integrations, and scalable backend design within Target's cybersecurity ecosystem. A hybrid work model is available at the MN location.