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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.\nABOUT US\nWorking at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life\nthrough our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.\nABOUT THE ROLE\nAs an Engineer, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product. You develop insight into technical architecture and design while building robust, scalable, and secure software components. You solve engineering problems, balance the delivery of new capabilities with software quality\nand reliability, and contribute to code reviews that maintain functional accuracy across the team. You learn the design and architecture of the platform, participate in team ceremonies and technical discussions, and grow your ability to influence how products and services are built and operated. You will use your technology acumen to provide input on new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. You will participate in research and proof-of-concept initiatives, write and maintain code based on established designs, and help deliver high-performing, repeatable, and secure solutions.\nWith guidance from senior engineers, you will participate in construction, automation, debugging, testing, implementation, incident response, and operational support activities while following architectural and engineering best practices.\nABOUT THIS TEAM\nThe Email and Data Protection team builds and operates critical capabilities that protect Target's team members, guests, applications, and information from malicious email content and data-related threats. The team owns and advances a layered email security platform that includes vended security products, internally developed services, and integrations across Target's cybersecurity ecosystem.\nA major focus of this role is Target's real-time email data platform, which ingests, processes, scans, enriches, and routes enterprise email telemetry for security analysis. The platform integrates with Target's Strelka file-scanning platform and Google Security Operations to deliver streaming data, detections, alerts, and investigative context to security teams.\nIn this role, you will help maintain and enhance the backend services, data pipelines, APIs, automated tests, and operational capabilities that make this platform reliable and effective.\nCybersecurity is a fast-changing engineering domain. Threat actors continue to adopt new automation and advanced AI techniques, which requires defenders to build adaptable systems, improve detection speed, and respond creatively to emerging risks.\nThis role provides an opportunity to apply strong software engineering fundamentals to meaningful work that helps protect a large-scale enterprise while developing valuable security domain knowledge.\nPrior cybersecurity or email security experience is not required. This is a software engineering role within the Cybersecurity organization, and engineers with strong development fundamentals, curiosity, and an interest in distributed systems can grow successfully in the role.\nCORE RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and other modern languages and frameworks.\nContribute to distributed and event-driven services that ingest, process, scan, enrich, and route enterprise email data in real time.\nBuild and enhance integrations with vended email security products, Target's Strelka platform,\nGoogle Security Operations, and related detection and alerting capabilities.\nDevelop and maintain RESTful APIs, event-streaming components, data models, and service integrations using established engineering patterns.\nWrite clean, maintainable code and participate actively in code reviews, design discussions, sprint ceremonies, and technical documentation.\nCreate and maintain automated unit, integration, contract, and regression tests to improve software quality and delivery confidence.\nInvestigate and resolve frequently encountered production issues involving application behavior, data processing, and system integrations, escalating complex issues when appropriate.\nMonitor service health, logs, metrics, alerts, and capacity. Contribute to improvements in reliability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency.\nSupport database schema changes, data migrations, API updates, and backward-compatible service enhancements.\nParticipate in CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release, change-management, incident-management, and disaster-recovery activities.\nPartner with engineers, cybersecurity analysts, product partners, vendors, and other stakeholders to understand needs and deliver effective technical solutions.\nContribute to research and proof-of-concept efforts involving emerging technologies, including responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.\nBuild knowledge of email processing, security platforms, and Target's cybersecurity ecosystem through hands-on engineering, formal training, and self-directed learning.\nCore responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.\nABOUT YOU\nNot everybody will meet every requirement. We would still like to hear from you if this role and its mission\ninterest you.\nFour-year degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\n1+ years of software development experience through professional work, internships, co-ops, substantial academic projects, or equivalent hands-on experience.\nProficiency in at least one modern programming language, with experience or interest in developing Java applications.\nFamiliarity with object-oriented programming, common data structures, algorithms, APIs, and software design fundamentals.\nUnderstanding of distributed programming concepts and the ability to apply them with guidance within your area of responsibility.\nExperience writing automated tests and debugging software using logs, development tools, and structured problem-solving techniques.\nFamiliarity with relational databases, SQL, and basic data modeling concepts.\nAbility to learn an existing codebase, follow established engineering patterns, and deliver maintainable software components.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with curiosity about how complex systems behave.\nClear written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical partners.\nA commitment to software quality, security, operational excellence, and continuous learning.\nFamiliarity with current and emerging technologies and a demonstrated ability to build domain-specific knowledge through training and self-directed education.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience with Java and Spring Boot through professional work, internships, coursework, or personal projects.\nExposure to messaging or event-streaming technologies such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or JMS.\nFamiliarity with cloud-native development in Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.\nExposure to Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure automation.\nExperience developing RESTful APIs or backend services.\nFamiliarity with observability concepts, including logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health monitoring.\nInterest in cybersecurity, email security, or highly available production systems.\nFamiliarity with email or enterprise messaging concepts such as SMTP, MIME, message routing, or email authentication controls.\nExperience using AI-assisted software engineering tools responsibly to support learning, development, testing, or documentation.\nWORK ARRANGEMENT\nThis 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 rolewill need to beperformedboth onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned toandvirtually,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. Clickhere if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.\nBenefits Eligibility\nPlease paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_DAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\nIn compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. 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