Sr Engineer - Incident Response Engineering

Target Target · Retail · NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park, MN

This role is for a Senior Engineer on the Incident Response Engineering team, focusing on SOAR engineering, automation, integrations, and data pipeline capabilities to enhance security operations tooling. The engineer will design, build, and maintain automations and integrations to improve incident response efficiency and scale, working with cross-functional teams to translate operational needs into technical solutions. Experience with SOAR platforms and data pipelines is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized areas of the technology domain
  2. Design, build, and maintain SOAR automations, integrations, workflows, and internal engineering solutions that improve the speed, consistency, and scale of incident response operations
  3. Evaluate new technologies and participate in decision-making, accounting for factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership
  4. Participate in design, code review, testing, debugging, and implementation activities at the application level
  5. Partner with engineers, analysts, and cross-functional teams to translate operational needs into scalable technical solutions

Skills

Required

  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Strong problem solving and thought partnership skills
  • Demonstrated sense of ownership
  • Expertise in frontend and backend development
  • Expertise in JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and Python
  • Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and web-based services
  • Experience building automations, workflows, or internal applications

Nice to have

  • Experience with SOAR platforms or security automation tools
  • Familiarity with data pipelines or data-processing workflows
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity

What the JD emphasized

  • SOAR engineering
  • automation
  • integrations
  • workflows
  • data pipeline capabilities
  • security automation tools