Senior Engineer – Threat Detection Operations

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Employee discounts

Job summary

Target is seeking a Senior Engineer for Threat Detection Operations in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. This role revolves around enhancing the company's ability to detect and respond to threats through the development of high-quality detections.

Your responsibilities will include designing detections across various security platforms and collaborating with teams to turn threat intelligence into effective security signals, all while operating in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, including 3 years in developing detections.
• Experience with security analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of adversary tactics and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain production-ready detections for various security platforms.
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection logic.
• Measure and report on detection performance.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

Detection engineering

Data-driven development

Python scripting

Cloud security monitoring

Education

4-year degree in cybersecurity, computer science, or related field

Tools

SIEM

EDR

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

The pay range is $98,000.00 - $176,000.00

About the Role

As a Senior Engineer – Threat Detection Operations, you will help advance Target’s ability to detect and respond to sophisticated threats through the development of scalable, high-quality detections. This role focuses on transforming threat intelligence, incident learnings, and hunting outcomes into durable, high-fidelity detections.

You will leverage large-scale security telemetry, analytics platforms, and automation frameworks to engineer detection content and improve security monitoring effectiveness. Working closely with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and security platform teams, you will turn actionable threat intelligence into high‑confidence security signals to enable efficient detection and response.

This role is ideal for someone who is highly technical, data‑driven, and passionate about developing modern detection capabilities that keep pace with the evolving threat landscape.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production‑ready detections across a variety of security platforms, including SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity, and network security technologies
• Translate threat intelligence, incident response findings, and threat hunting outcomes into scalable, actionable detection logic
• Develop and tune behavioral, signature‑based, and statistical/anomaly‑driven detections to identify malicious or suspicious activity while minimizing false positives and toil
• Collaborate with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and platform engineering teams to identify and resolve detection and visibility gaps
• Validate detection coverage against adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• Measure and report on detection performance, including fidelity, coverage, and effectiveness
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of detection engineering practices, standards, and methodologies

About You

• 4‑year degree in cybersecurity, computer science, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in cybersecurity, including at least 3 years focused on developing detections informed by threat intelligence, adversary behaviors, and/or data science and machine learning techniques.
• Experience developing, deploying, and tuning detections across a variety of platforms such as SIEM, EDR, cloud security, and security analytics platforms.
• Experience with cloud security monitoring across AWS, GCP, or Azure environments.
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end detection engineering concepts resulting in durable, scalable detection content.
• Experience scripting with languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate security workflows and improve detection operations.
• Strong understanding of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to evaluate security telemetry and identify detection opportunities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across security and engineering teams.

Additional Skills We Are Interested In

• Experience with detection‑as‑code methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks for security content.
• Experience applying statistical analysis, anomaly detection, machine learning, or behavioral analytics to improve detection capabilities.
• Experience with security data modeling, feature engineering, or graph‑based threat detection techniques.
• Experience applying LLMs or AI‑assisted workflows to detection development, alert triage, enrichment, or investigation use cases.
• Relevant certifications such as GCIA, GCIH, GCED, GMLE, GCFA, or similar cybersecurity certifications.

Work Arrangement

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.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [e-mail]. Non‑accommodation‑related requests, such as application follow‑ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.