Lead Engineer: Email Security & Data Protection

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Target is seeking a Lead Engineer in Minnesota to shape and sustain enterprise-scale email security capabilities. You will lead technical design, research, and lifecycle management for services with broad enterprise impact.

You will guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable, secure, and reliable delivery while partnering across cybersecurity, messaging, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leading 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 strategies (unit/integration/contract/end-to-end).
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex issues involving data pipelines and system integrations.
• Experience with relational databases, schema design, data migrations, and data lifecycle considerations.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and coaching.

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 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 disruption to legitimate business communications.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Automated testing

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

Target is seeking a Lead Engineer in Minnesota to shape and sustain enterprise-scale email security capabilities. You will lead technical design, research, and lifecycle management for services with broad enterprise impact.

You will guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable, secure, and reliable delivery while partnering across cybersecurity, messaging, and infrastructure teams.