Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

Workday
Boulder
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 184,800 - 277,200 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Stakeholder management","Incident leadership","High ownership"]

Lead Workday’s security response program by architecting, operating, and continuously improving response tooling and environments. Drive the vision and implementation of a world-class response capability spanning incident response, digital forensics (DFIR), threat hunting, security automation, and data loss prevention, with AI applied to security response processes. Own incident leadership for high-severity events, mentor staff, and help evolve platforms (e.g., SOAR, SIEM, response/forensics/agentic AI) supporting cyber defense across Workday’s SaaS platform.

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Principal Cybersecurity Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead Workday’s security response program by architecting, operating, and continuously improving response tooling and environments. Drive the vision and implementation of a world-class response capability spanning incident response, digital forensics (DFIR), threat hunting, security automation, and data loss prevention, with AI applied to security response processes. Own incident leadership for high-severity events, mentor staff, and help evolve platforms (e.g., SOAR, SIEM, response/forensics/agentic AI) supporting cyber defense across Workday’s SaaS platform.
Location: Boulder
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect, operate, and continuously develop security response tooling and environments (e.g., SOAR, SIEM, incident response, forensics, agentic AI).
  • •Contribute to the program vision and implement a world-class security response program.
  • •Evolve cyber defense response platforms to enable precision, automation, and innovation.
  • •Lead and support security incident response across the organization, including high-severity incidents.
  • •Help drive team development by mentoring new and existing staff.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 184,800 - 277,200 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years in cybersecurity/information security, including 2+ years in hands-on technical leadership.
  • •Bachelor’s degree.
  • •Extensive expertise architecting and deploying scalable cloud-native security solutions with software development background for implementation and rapid prototyping.
  • •Deep experience with security monitoring and incident response/incident management to inform solution decisions.
  • •Deep knowledge of scripting languages and AI for security response (conversational AI, generative AI, and AI agents), plus experience with SIEM/SOAR, DFIR, threat hunting, and SSDLC.
Experience:10+ years
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipMentoringStakeholder managementIncident leadershipHigh ownership
Certifications:Offensive SecuritySANSCISSP
Tech Stack:SOARSIEMIncident ResponseForensicsAgentic AISaaSCloud-nativeThreat huntingDigital forensicsData loss preventionSecurity automationSSDLCConversational AIGenerative AIAI agents

Company Brief

Workday
Provides cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management, financial management, payroll, and analytics. Delivers unified HR and finance software suites to large organizations, enabling workforce planning, talent management, payroll, and financial reporting.
Industry: HR Tech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Pleasanton, United States
Founded: 2005
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