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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:\nTarget is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.\nTarget as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies-and the brightest people-to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.\nAs a Senior SIEM Engineer, you will:\nOwn and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle)-from source onboarding through reliable shipment-so downstream teams can power search, alerting, enrichment, and investigations.\nDesign and deliver scalable improvements to ingestion pipelines, integrations, and data validation, including feed health signals, shipment validations, and other meta-attributes that ensure end-to-end feed reliability.\nPartner with and build strong working relationships across Threat Management Engineering, Threat Detection & Operations, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and CSIRT to deliver high-quality, backward-compatible changes to large-volume, high-criticality data feeds and SecOps integrations.\nLead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across log pipelines and SIEM integrations (including other SIEM platforms) as part of a shared 24/7 on-call rotation; implement preventative mechanisms through monitoring, runbooks, and automation.\nBuild and enhance ingestion integrations and operational tooling using Python and regular expressions for parsing, validation, transformations, and schema evolution across standard and non-standard formats (e.g., JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV).\nDevelop monitoring and alerting aligned to platform SLOs/SLAs, improving completeness, timeliness, and quality while reducing incident recurrence and MTTR.\nCollaborate across teams to prioritize work, unblock partners, and continuously improve telemetry quality and platform performance.\nIn this role, you are a technical contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating reliable log ingestion capabilities that enable the core cybersecurity mission at Target. You bring strong troubleshooting and systems thinking, developing deep understanding of the platform’s architecture, interfaces, and failure modes to drive scalable improvements across ingestion pipelines, integrations, feed health, and shipment validation. You lead investigations from signal to root cause, communicate clearly during incidents, and follow through with durable preventative fixes via observability, runbooks, and automation. You take broad end-to-end ownership-raising operational readiness so the platform can rapidly pivot to meet shifting cybersecurity landscape, priorities, and incident demands. You consistently produce high-quality code and operational changes, and you collaborate across teams to align on standards, unblock delivery, and continuously improve telemetry quality and platform performance.\nCore responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.\nAbout you:\n4-year degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience\n3+ years of software development and/or platform engineering experience\nProven track record building and operating systems in a cloud environment (public cloud required)\nProficiency in Python\nProficiency with regular expressions for parsing, extraction, and validation\nExperience integrating systems using APIs (including authentication/authorization concepts)\nExperience ingesting, transforming, and validating log/event data across standard and non-standard formats (e.g., JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV), including schema changes and backwards compatibility\nDemonstrated troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in production environments, including follow-through on preventative fixes (monitoring, runbooks, automation)\nUnderstanding of distributed systems fundamentals and common resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency)\nExperience migrating services or data flows between provider platforms (e.g., on-prem ↔ cloud)\nWillingness to participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation\nThis position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. 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