Senior Red Team Engineer - Hybrid Cyber Defense

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

Job summary

Target's Cyber Security Red Team is seeking a Senior Engineer to conduct adversary emulation operations, design attack simulations, and develop playbooks that uncover risks across the environment. You will collaborate with Incident Response, Threat Management, and other engineering teams while staying current with threat actor techniques.

Join Target at the MN HQ in a Hybrid work model, mentoring junior engineers and contributing to risk reduction across the organization.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years minimum experience in technology, with offensive security or related defensive experience preferred.
• Strong offensive security knowledge.
• Proficiency in Windows, Linux, or Mac internals and native tools.
• Understanding of the impact Red Team work has on an organization and customers.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine issues.

Responsibilities

• Consult on, design, and execute adversary emulation operations.
• Conduct research into threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures to develop proof-of-concept tools and playbooks.
• Bypass preventative and detective security controls to accomplish operational goals.
• Partner with the Cyber Security Incident Response Team and other stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Threat Hunting engineers on research.
• Educate non-security engineering teams to align on operational objectives.

Skills

Offensive security

Cross‑platform OS

Threat research

Scripting languages

Team collaboration

Education

4-year degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

C#

Rust

Go

C

Job description

Target's Cyber Security Red Team is seeking a Senior Engineer to conduct adversary emulation operations, design attack simulations, and develop playbooks that uncover risks across the environment. You will collaborate with Incident Response, Threat Management, and other engineering teams while staying current with threat actor techniques.

Join Target at the MN HQ in a Hybrid work model, mentoring junior engineers and contributing to risk reduction across the organization.