Lead Engineer - Red Team; Remote Or Hybrid
Brooklyn Park, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Listed on 2026-09-13
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity
The pay range is $ - $
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.
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The Cyber Fusion Center is the heart of Target's security team and a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too and that's why we work here. Join our team to work on ops that drive real change by leveraging adversary behavior to communicate discovered risk effectively, and benefit from continuous development and research.
AboutRed Team
Target's Red Team uses adversary simulation to uncover risk in our environment, provide training opportunities to defenders, and measure the processes and technology defending the organization. We leverage a high level of collaboration between teams as we drive organizational improvement. Our objective-driven operations are supplemented with direct training and development, Purple Team work, and consulting within the company on security risk.
As a Red Team Lead Engineer, you will conduct and lead operations, contribute to the team, influence team direction, and collaborate with partner teams. This Lead Engineer role is an operator role, and not a management role. The "Lead" title reflects the seniority of the role, and the responsibility of mentoring more junior operators. In most, but not all circumstances, the experience required to meet the requirements of this role would require a candidate to have previous Red Team experience, not just experience in the offensive security industry.
Team Members Regularly
- Consult on, design, and execute adversary emulation operations
- Conduct research into real-world threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures to develop proof-of-concept tools and playbooks
- Bypass preventative and detective security controls to accomplish operational goals
- Partner with the Cyber Security Incident Response Team and other stakeholders in the organization to identify improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Threat Hunting engineers and analysts on research
- Work with non-security engineering teams to educate, and collaborate on operational objectives
- Develop strategic adversary emulation objectives and operational plans
- Execute adversary emulation operations to surface risk in the organization
- Work with partner teams to plan cooperative engagements
- Lead and train operators
- Communicate effectively with and directly support defenders
- Present findings and operational work to groups in a clear and professional manner
- Study the techniques of Threat Actors, and apply that lens to operational work
- Partner with other Team Members to improve tools and procedures
- Manage work effectively in the team’s project management tools (Github/JIRA)
- Respond to the…
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