Cybersecurity Engineer

Overview In this role you will own the security data substrate and platform reliability that underpins Workday's Active Defense initiative. You will build and operate data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD integrations that turn security signals into a scalable, data-driven foundation for AI-enabled security. You’ll solve ambiguous problems with self-serve infrastructure and partner with security and engineering teams to accelerate defense. You’ll leverage AI tooling to augment security engineering while maintaining solid foundations and measurable outcomes. This is a chance to influence how security data and automation enable machine-speed decision making across the organization. Compensation / BenefitsFlex Workremote work opportunitiesannual refresh stock grantsbonus plan eligibilityopportunity for role-specific compensation details ResponsibilitiesOwn and evolve the infrastructure-as-code and platform substrate for security data and automation services across environmentsDesign, build, and operate data pipelines that ingest and transform security data at scaleEnhance continuous delivery and cloud-security posture to ensure deployability, observability, and secure-by-default servicesTranslate vague partner requests into shipped solutions through scope, proposal, and end-to-end executionDevelop and maintain integrations across security tools and enterprise platforms to accelerate response and reduce toilAdvance AI-augmented engineering practices with reusable components and code-review disciplinePrototype, test, ship, learn, and improve with the team Key requirementsStrong Python skills with automation and integration experienceHands-on infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform)CI/CD experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar) with production ownershipFluent with a broad AWS surface and at least one compute service (e.g., EMR, Batch, Glue, or EKS)Experience with containerization (Docker) and modern deployment patternsKnowledge of core cybersecurity practices and data (vulnerabilities, incidents, identity, threat intel)Comfort owning on-call and operational readiness for servicescuriosityhigh agencyclear communicationPython automation and APIsTerraformAWS (Lambda, ECS, S3, IAM, KMS, VPC, and related compute services)