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.
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.
Role summary:
As a Lead Engineer, you are the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own, and evolve the application architecture that best serves the product’s functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development and improve reliability and quality. You have deep and broad engineering skills and can stand up an architecture end to end, while scaling your impact by mentoring engineers and acting as a force multiplier. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
We are seeking a Lead Engineer to own our enterprise key management platform and make it easy and safe for teams to use encryption and signing at scale. This role is ideal for someone who deeply understands key lifecycle management and HSM-backed systems and enjoys building reliable, scalable services in a modern engineering environment.
You will lead technical strategy, mentor engineers, architect core security services, and partner with platform, cloud, identity, and application teams to deliver secure, seamless cryptographic capabilities across the enterprise, while ensuring our key management and cryptographic services can adapt to evolving algorithms, standards, and enterprise security requirements.
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Work Arrangement:
This 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 role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, 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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
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In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Based on 7,120 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $157K/year, with most offers between $123K and $199K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$235K).
This posting lists $132K–$238K, above the $157K market median.
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