Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Target is a technology-focused retailer whose teams build and support secure, reliable systems for its guests and team members. The Lead Engineer will design, evolve, and operate the SIEM platform while building full-stack capabilities, leading technical delivery, and partnering with cybersecurity teams on Google SecOps integrations and detection workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and evolve the SIEM platform across the legacy Next.js/Node.js application stack and new Google SecOps integrations, making pragmatic architecture decisions that improve reliability, maintainability, and migration velocity
• Build full stack features in Typescript, React, Express, Temporal, and Bull
• Partner with Threat Detection & Operations, Cyber Threat Intelligence, CSIRT, and other security teams to translate detection and investigation workflows into technical designs, resolve ambiguous or conflicting requirements, and deliver new or migrated capabilities on Google SecOps
• Contribute independently with minimal supervision. Take ownership from problem to delivery
• Create technical designs for new features. Decompose the design into epics and user stories
• Review and manual test code from other team members
• Own production readiness and operational health for SIEM services, including hosted environments, service users, virtual machines, containers, SSL certificates, databases, PCI compliance, observability, on-call support, and release quality; troubleshoot issues across the stack and drive durable fixes
• Own testing from start to finish with automated and manual tests
• Participate level 1 on call rotation
• Provide technical leadership for engineers contributing to the SIEM platform through design reviews, code reviews, pair programming, and collaborative problem solving
• Use observability metrics, logs, traces, and user feedback to improve performance, usability, and reliability
• Manage software releases from start to finish

Skills

• 8+ years of experience building full stack applications
• 2+ years building backend services with Node, Express, and an ORM (e.g. Sequelize)
• 2+ years working with a job scheduler or orchestration framework (e.g. Bull or Temporal)
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• 2+ years building React or Next.js applications with TypeScript, state management (e.g. TanStack Query), form validation (React Form Hooks), and component libraries (e.g. MUI)
• 2+ years of experience with a message framework (e.g. Kaffka and ActiveMQ) and distributed caching (e.g. Redis)
• Demonstrated ability to define technical designs and evolve system architecture from concept to production
• Worked on public or private cloud environments
• Worked in large codebases with multiple repositories
• Familiarity with containerization and using CI/CD pipelines to generate artifacts (e.g. Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)
• Experience with application observability using APM tools and OpenTelemetry
• Experience on call support
• 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
• This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs.  A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.  A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location 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

• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation
• Remote or Hybrid work arrangement

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