Lead Engineer - Email & Data Protection (Hybrid)

Relha LLC; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee discount

Paid time off

Job summary

Target is seeking a Lead Engineer - Email and Data Protection to shape and sustain enterprise email security capabilities. You will guide design, research, and lifecycle management for services with broad impact, establishing reusable patterns and secure development practices.

You will lead engineering efforts across deployments, testing, and integration with security platforms, while mentoring teams to deliver high-performing, resilient solutions at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading the design and delivery of complex platform-oriented solutions.
• Strong backend engineering experience with Java and Spring Boot, plus proficiency in at least one additional modern programming language.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive applications.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and integrations across enterprise systems.
• Strong understanding of automated testing, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing strategies.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex issues involving applications, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Experience with relational databases, schema design, data migrations, and data lifecycle considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous technical problems through analytical thinking, experimentation, and innovative problem-solving.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, engineering standards, coaching, and mentoring.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions and risks to engineering, security, and business stakeholders.
• A continuous-improvement mindset with a history of proactively identifying and addressing technical gaps, operational risks, or inefficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the engineering, operation, reliability, and lifecycle management of Target's enterprise email security platforms and supporting services.
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and other modern languages and frameworks.
• Lead the design and enhancement of scalable services that ingest, process, scan, enrich, and route real-time email data for security detection, investigation, and response.
• Design and enhance integrations with vended email security products, Target's Strelka platform.
• Google Security Operations, and other security detection, alerting, and response capabilities.
• Establish engineering patterns and standards for APIs, event streams, data models, automated testing, observability, resiliency, and secure service development.
• Lead technical design reviews, code reviews, proof-of-concept efforts, and decisions involving platform architecture and technology selection.
• Establish effective operational practices for monitoring, incident response, problem management, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and production readiness.
• Partner with cybersecurity, messaging, infrastructure, and business teams to investigate security events, resolve complex platform issues, and provide reliable data and capabilities to security partners.
• Continuously improve and tune security controls, platform reliability, and operational processes to reduce risk while minimizing unnecessary disruption to legitimate business communications.
• Guide database schema evolution, data migrations, API contracts, and backward-compatible platform changes.
• Advance CI/CD, automated unit and integration testing, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices.
• Coach and mentor engineers, raise the technical capabilities of the team, and foster a culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools, and apply them responsibly to improve engineering quality and delivery.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Backend

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Automated testing

Troubleshooting

Relational databases

Data migrations

Data lifecycle

Leadership

Education

Four-year degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pub/Sub

RabbitMQ

JMS

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Target is seeking a Lead Engineer - Email and Data Protection to shape and sustain enterprise email security capabilities. You will guide design, research, and lifecycle management for services with broad impact, establishing reusable patterns and secure development practices.

You will lead engineering efforts across deployments, testing, and integration with security platforms, while mentoring teams to deliver high-performing, resilient solutions at enterprise scale.