Senior Threat Detection Architect – Remote/Hybrid

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Target is seeking a Principal Engineer for Threat Detection Operations in the United States. You will set the technical strategy for detection engineering, platforms, services, and automations to identify threats across enterprise, cloud, identity, and endpoints.

You will translate threat intelligence into durable detections, lead architecture, and mentor engineers, while partnering with incident responders and threat intelligence teams to continuously improve detection coverage and alert

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience in cybersecurity or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, detection engineering, threat hunting, security operations or related services.
• Advanced Python programming and software engineering skills, including APIs, data structures, testing, code review, source control, packaging, error handling, and maintainable documentation.
• Experience with CI/CD, detection-as-code, DevSecOps practices, automated testing, secure deployment, monitoring, rollback, versioning, and change governance.
• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM and security analytics platforms and the development of production-grade detection rules, correlation logic, and alerting workflows.
• Knowledge of detection engineering principles across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and application telemetry; understanding adversary techniques and behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for detection engineering and related capabilities.
• Architect and lead scalable detection capabilities and automations across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Establish engineering standards for content, source control, testing, CI/CD, and production operations.
• Lead design, development, and lifecycle management of detection capabilities, rules, analytics, and tooling.
• Provide hands-on leadership for complex detection challenges, guiding development, testing, tuning, and deployment.
• Partner with incident responders, threat hunters, threat intel, and architecture teams to translate intelligence into durable detections.
• Assess viability and cost of detection technologies through proofs of concept and vendor evaluations.
• Define metrics to measure coverage, fidelity, alert quality, and operational performance; drive improvement.
• Influence telemetry and data strategy to support detections, observability, and data quality.
• Mentor engineers and analysts, help recruit and develop talent.

Skills

Python

APIs

Data structures

Testing

Source control

Packaging

Error handling

Documentation

REST APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Git

PowerShell

Bash

Kubernetes

Cloud technologies

Security data platforms

Detection rules

Correlation logic

Threat intelligence

Endpoint analytics

Adversary techniques

Education

4-year degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Git

REST APIs

Job description

Target is seeking a Principal Engineer for Threat Detection Operations in the United States. You will set the technical strategy for detection engineering, platforms, services, and automations to identify threats across enterprise, cloud, identity, and endpoints.

You will translate threat intelligence into durable detections, lead architecture, and mentor engineers, while partnering with incident responders and threat intelligence teams to continuously improve detection coverage and alert