Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Workday
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About the Team
Come be a part of Workday's Emerging Threats team! Our responsibilities include Threat Intelligence, Detection and Engineering operations. We source, evaluate, and analyze both internal and external data, providing critical insight to a variety of security and business teams. We use emerging and relevant intelligence to build detections that enhance our defenses. We build solutions and integrations to streamline our operations while meeting the challenge to scale to the business' needs. We are a core function of the overall Cyber Defense organization at Workday that helps keep the company and its customer data safe every day.About the Role
As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you will perform in depth intelligence analysis to support Workday and our partners. You will identify and research threats, actors and techniques and share timely intelligence to the teams that need it. You will work closely with other members of the Emerging Threats team to build threat detections using the latest information gleaned from intelligence.
About You
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of proven abilities in one or more of: incident response, intelligence analysis, detection engineering, vulnerability assessment, security engineering or security operations
- 5+ years of experience with Python (or a similar high-level language)
- Experience researching cybersecurity threats and creating security solutions
- Experience developing and delivering intelligence products
- Experience using intelligence concepts and standards (E.g. MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, intelligence lifecycle)
Other Qualifications
- Experience responding to cybersecurity incidents and helping to mitigate threats
- Knowledge of large-scale SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Elasticsearch), including deep query language expertise, data modeling, and performance optimization.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining automations and workflows
- Experience reverse engineering malware, suspicious code and vulnerabilities
- Experience developing, testing, and responding to a wide range of threat actor TTPs
- Enthusiastic about new emerging topics in security/intelligence, data science and/or machine learning
- Strong communication skills and an ability to present technical information to a non-technical audience
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.
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