Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Location:
Reston, VA - USA
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Job Summary
Your work days are brighter here.
Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.
About the Team
Security Automation & Integration Engineering (SecAIE) transforms cybersecurity operations by architecting intelligent automation that turns manual processes into scalable decision-accelerating systems. Were the engineering excellence partner within Cybersecurity and Trust - building the unified data foundation intelligent automation and decision support tools that enable security teams to make precise data-driven decisions at machine speed.We partner closely with Security Leadership Operational Teams Engineering Teams and Governance/Risk Teams to deliver platforms that multiply their effectiveness. Our current charter contributes directly to Workdays Active Defense pivot - building the reliable data and platform substrate that lets security teams execute at machine speed and out-adapt AI-driven threats.
Were a small high-impact team that values curiosity pragmatism and collaboration. We believe working solutions beat perfect designs unified context beats massive datasets and partner success is our success. Leveraging AI to augment how we do security engineering is an active opportunity for the team and one we expect this role to help lean into.
About the Role
About You
Youre a curious engineer who owns problems rather than tickets. Youre drawn to ambiguous messy asks and you enjoy learning a domain deeply enough to propose the right solution not just implement one that was handed to you. You bring high agency: you can move a partners rough problem statement to a shipped operational answer without waiting to be told each next step. Youre comfortable turning a partners Slack thread into a written proposal and comfortable when the answer to whose ticket is this is nobodys yet - Ill draft one. You know when to escalate and when to just close the loop yourself. You default to reusable components over copy-paste eval over vibes and reliable defaults over one-off heroics. You use AI tooling deliberately and can articulate where it accelerates you and where it does not. You communicate clearly ask good questions and genuinely enjoy collaborating across teams to solve hard problems.
Basic Qualifications:
- Strong Python skills with hands-on experience shipping production software (APIs services batch jobs or application backends) including code review testing and operational follow-through
- Hands-on experience building or evaluating LLM / agent systems (harnesses eval tracing or agentic pipelines) or strong software-engineering fundamentals plus demonstrated AI-augmented development (Copilot coding agents) with a point of view on where they help
- Comfort designing or evolving schemas / data contracts and application UIs that sit on real data - not mock-only prototypes
- Working knowledge of core cybersecurity practices - identity and access secrets handling secure-by-default configuration and reasoning over common security data (vulnerabilities incidents identity threat intel) - so you can build for security outcomes.
- Comfortable owning what you ship (runbooks basic observability eval that still runs after you merge)
Other Qualifications:
- Agent / eval - LangChain LangGraph LangSmith or similar; LLM-as-judge or offline eval; tracing and observability for agent runs
- Application / UI - frontend (React or similar) for internal tools; watchlist / dashboard / workflow UIs on security data
- Security domain - hands-on with security tools or data for triage and investigation (SIEM vulnerability scanners identity systems orchestration platforms such as Tines); curiosity about detection-engineering workflows
- Data / schema - comfort reasoning about shared schemas or data contracts that span team boundaries treating what / who / state as a first-class artifact
- Cloud / platform familiarity - working AWS fluency (enough to ship and operate); IaC (Terraform/Docker) is useful but not the daily job
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces where you help define the solution not just implement it
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 candidates 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 Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.
Primary Location:Additional Considerations:
If performed in Colorado the pay range for this job is $124000 - $186000 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:
Our Approach to Flexible Work
With Flex Work were 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 youll 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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Required Experience:
IC
