Lead Engineer - Cloud Security (Software Engineering)

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits .

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here . Target is one of the world's most recognized brands and one of America's leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation and right now, we are up to big things! Target's security team is a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too – that's why we work here. Join our team to improve Target's security and move the business forward. As a Lead Engineer on the Cloud Security team, you'll be the senior software engineer building and owning the services that turn Target's cloud security signal into action. Cloud Security at Target is one team with two engineering disciplines — platform engineers who deploy, tune, and operate the cloud security controls (CSPM/CNAPP, IaC scanning, admission control, SSPM, workload protection), and software engineers who build the services that aggregate, attribute, enrich, and distribute the findings those controls produce, plus the broader backend that the team's capabilities depend on. You will lead the software engineering side of that partnership. Beyond deep technical expertise, you have a strong bias for action and a builder's mindset. The team's software sits between the controls that produce findings and the product and platform engineers who have to act on them, and you are comfortable operating in that realm – translating security requirements into reliable, well-tested backend services; owning the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the findings pipeline and adjacent services; coordinating APIs, data contracts, and developer-experience tradeoffs with the platform engineers on your team and with the consumers of your services; and partnering with peers so cloud security findings flow into the enterprise remediation lifecycle. You have the engineering credibility to set technical direction for other software engineers on the team and the communication and partnership skills to make the services land well across Target. Expect to: • Serve as the senior software engineering lead and hands-on owner of the Cloud Security team's software portfolio — setting the technical direction, standards, and roadmap that other software engineers execute against. • Lead the design, development, and operation of the findings pipeline: services that ingest cloud security signal from CSPM/CNAPP, IaC scanning, admission control, SSPM, and workload protection; deduplicate and normalize it; enrich it with ownership attribution and business context; and route it to Target's enterprise remediation dashboards with SLAs so product and platform teams can act. • Design and build scalable backend services in Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot — event-driven where it fits, request/response where it doesn't — with clean APIs, clear data contracts, and the observability needed to run them