Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

About the Role

Workday is seeking a dedicated and proficient security professional possessing extensive security engineering and response expertise with knowledge on how to apply AI to security response processes. This is an opportunity to contribute to a highly visible team involved in all major cybersecurity events, where your skills and experience will be used to inspire confidence and trust in Workday.

This is a highly technical principal role with the understanding that you are already conversant in incident response, security automation, system security, network security, threat hunting, forensics, data loss prevention and artificial intelligence. Furthermore, this role leads the development and lifecycle support of the organization's response tooling infrastructure and associated environments. This role will push you to understand the inner workings of our SaaS platform and couple that with traditional security practices on premise. We have resources in every cloud, including our own. We offer a hybrid/flexible schedule for employees.

What you will do:

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to set direction, motivate teams, and drive the security mindset across every aspect of the company.

• Spearhead the architecture, daily operations, and continuous development of all security response tooling and environments (i.e. SOAR, SIEM, Incident Response, Forensics, Agentic AI).

• Contribute to the program vision and implementation of a world class Response program at Workday.

• Evolve the response platforms that enable Cyber Defense to operate with precision, automation and innovation.

• Lead and support security incident response across the organization.

• Help drive team development by mentoring new and existing staff.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity or information security roles, including 2+ years with hands-on technical leadership experience

• Bachelor’s Degree.

Other Qualifications

• Other relevant certification/s and training are beneficial (e.g. Offensive Security, SANS, CISSP, Specific Security Tooling, etc.).

• Extensive expertise in architecting and deploying scalable cloud-native security solutions, complemented by a background in software development to facilitate implementation, with a particular focus on rapid prototyping and iterative methodologies.

• Experience with security monitoring and incident response is important, as this knowledge will inform decisions on how to implement the solutions.

• Deep knowledge of scripting languages, artificial intelligence (conversational AI, Generative AI and AI Agents) are essential.

• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects with various stakeholders outside of their organization, competing priorities, and core operations effectively.

• High ownership and accountability, with comfort leading high-severity incidents.

• A strong intellectual curiosity to rapidly acquire proficiency in emerging technologies and platforms.

• Experience in some or all of the following:

  Security alert triage, investigation, incident response, and incident management

  Threat hunting and digital forensics

  SIEM and SOAR security technologies and solutions

  Leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance security processes

  Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please .

Primary Location: USA.VA.RestonPrimary Location Base Pay Range: $184,800 USD - $277,200 USDAdditional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $167,200 USD - $300,000 USD

Additional Considerations:

If performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is $176,000 - $264,000 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

The application deadline for this role is the same as the posting end date stated as below:

08/16/2026