Description
We’re Workday, a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Our Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, Compliance & Trust team builds and sustains trust in Workday's cybersecurity commitments.
About the Role The Principal Cybersecurity Engineer is a key technical leader responsible for defining and driving the strategic direction and implementation of security controls across the organization's infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Champion the principle of translating security policies directly into testable, automated code to ensure non-bypassable compliance.
- Conceptualize, architect, and champion the adoption of groundbreaking, enterprise-wide security architectures and strategic initiatives that address current and future threats at massive scale.
- Lead applied research and innovation in security, anticipating future threats, evaluating disruptive technologies, and pioneering novel solutions to maintain Workday's security posture.
- Establish, govern, and evolve the highest-level security architectural standards, principles, and patterns across the organization, ensuring their rigorous application and measurable effectiveness.
- Mentor, inspire, and cultivate other engineers and senior technical leaders across Workday; drive a culture of profound security understanding, innovation, and accountability.
- Advise executive leadership (VPs, Directors, C-suite) on critical security risks, strategic investments, and the company's overall security posture.
- Solve the most complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes security challenges that require novel approaches and deep, multi-disciplinary expertise, often with company-wide implications.
- Drive transformative security improvements across Workday’s people, processes, and technology.
About You
- 10+ years of distinguished, progressive experience in security engineering and architecture, with a demonstrable track record of setting technical vision, leading security architecture for large-scale, complex systems, and driving enterprise-wide security transformations.
- Highly proficient in architecting, implementing, evolving, and securing complex, mission-critical services and infrastructure across multiple major cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and large-scale enterprise environments.
- Pioneering understanding and application of cloud security principles, advanced architectural patterns, and emerging technologies, with a history of defining and implementing industry-leading security controls.
- Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Ruby) with the ability to develop automation for security operations, configuration management, and compliance.
- Unparalleled expertise and recognized authority in multiple core security domains (e.g., network security, platform hardening, application security, data protection, identity and access management, cryptography) and their strategic interplay in complex, distributed ecosystems.
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