About Us

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.

The Endpoint Security team is looking for a motivated Senior Engineer to join us in developing the tools that keep Target’s endpoints secure. As a member of this high performing team, you’ll use DevOps delivery methods, automation, and GenAI to improve the efficiency and security of our endpoints. Our team is focused on innovation, fast problem-solving and a culture of inclusion.

As a Senior Engineer on Target’s Endpoint Security team, you will:

• Develop and enhance products that keep our endpoints secure

• Use GenAI, scripting languages, open-source tools, and vendor products to build robust, well-tested, automated, and scalable security controls

• Use GenAI to improve the efficiency of day to day tasks and operations

• Build and implement high volume, high integrity data pipelines with stability and observability

• Lead the evaluation, testing, design, and implementation of endpoint security tools

• Support and maintain products that secure hundreds of thousands of endpoints

• Test endpoint security tool capabilities against threats in lab environments

• Research and improve upon industry best practices

• Work closely with partner teams

• Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• BS Degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Designs, implements, and supports high volume data pipelines for security and compliance with tools such as Hive, HDFS, BigQuery, GCS, Power BI, and Looker.

• Designs, implements, and supports open source and vendor security tools such as Next-Gen Antivirus (NGAV), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and security logging pipelines.

• Leads as an AI Builder persona – using GenAI to build AI agents and enhance the efficiency of day to day workflows

• Builds automated test and deploy pipelines for endpoint security tools (CI/CD)

• Experience with infrastructure as code and infrastructure automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, Chef, Terraform, and public cloud equivalents

• Builds and manages IT infrastructure and supporting applications, such as Linux servers, client operating systems, ELK, Docker, etc.

• Hands-on experience with a scripting language such as Python or Bash

• Experience developing stable solutions with observability tools such as Telegraf, Grafana, and OTEL.

• A desire to build subject matter expertise in threat detection, prevention, and response

• Experience leveraging PostgreSQL or other relational databases

• Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance

• A desire to use breach and attack system tools to validate security control effectiveness against common threat actor techniques
• Collaborative mindset centered on team goals

• Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and sense of ownership
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

• Strong verbal and written communication skills