Lead Application Security Specialist

The salary for this position ranges from $95,000.00 to $171,000.00, influenced by factors including labor market conditions, education, work experience, and certifications. Target is dedicated to investing in our team members and their families by providing comprehensive health benefits, including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. Additional benefits for eligible team members encompass a 401(k) plan, employee discounts, short-term and long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

About Us :

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As a Lead Application Security Specialist, you will be a key member of the engineering team, specializing in application architecture. Your role involves transforming abstract architecture into actionable designs and guiding implementation processes. With your deep expertise in software engineering patterns, you will create robust and scalable systems. While you possess the ability to independently design and implement architecture, your focus will be on influencing your fellow engineers through proactive proposals, feedback, and collaboration.

In this role, you will :

• Design, build, and operate security tooling and automation that integrates seamlessly into development workflows, including CI / CD processes.
• Create user-friendly solutions that make the secure path the easiest path by embedding guardrails and reducing manual fixes.
• Enhance existing practices with a security focus, including dependency scanning, SAST / DAST / SCA, supply chain risk management, and automated remediations.
• Work closely with product engineering teams to enable secure-by-default applications and influence designs with practical security advice.
• Develop push-down solutions such as rules, plugins, and integrations that surface security issues where code is written.
• Identify new opportunities to bolster security across Target’s environment, prioritizing impactful solutions.
• Maintain observability and feedback mechanisms for security signals within production systems.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and incident response strategies with a focus on application-level resilience.
• Share your knowledge and mentor colleagues in security engineering, fostering a culture of curiosity and collective ownership.

This position is part of a team revolutionizing security practices at scale, delivering automation and safeguards that shape secure application development across Target.

About You :

This position will operate under a Hybrid / Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's requirements. This means that the core responsibilities will need to be performed both onsite at Target HQ in Minnesota and virtually according to the needs of the role and team. Certain work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location.

Accessibility Statement :

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you require an accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to the appropriate department to discuss your needs.