Senior Software Engineer, Workday
Security (Pipedream)
$176-264k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)
Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
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Enterprise AI platform for managing HR and finance
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$176-264k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Pleasanton, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in product security, application security, or software engineering with a security focus
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management, threat modeling, and risk analysis
- Experience securing AWS or comparable cloud platforms at production scale
- Demonstrated experience in threat and vulnerability management, including identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks and weaknesses across a platform's security infrastructure. You have conducted vulnerability assessments, implemented security measures, and stayed current with the latest cybersecurity trends to keep systems protected
- Solid understanding of application security, including protecting software applications from potential threats and vulnerabilities. You are comfortable identifying and mitigating security risks in application design and code, and you bring experience with security controls such as encryption and authentication
- Proficiency in securing cloud infrastructure, with the ability to design, manage, and maintain cloud-based environments (AWS, GCP) at scale. You understand how to effectively secure and monitor cloud services in a production setting
- Experience with security incident response, including a systematic approach to managing the aftermath of security breaches or attacks. You know how to identify and analyze security incidents, coordinate response activities, and develop strategies to prevent future incidents
- Comfort reading and patching code across multiple languages — you do not need to know Pipedream's specific stack, but you are the kind of engineer who picks up new languages quickly and can operate effectively across a polyglot codebase
- A history of building security programs that engineering teams actually adopt — not just policies on paper. You partner with engineers to ship secure code and balance priorities across highly visible projects involving multiple teams
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or HIPAA, including running audits end-to-end, is a plus
- Offensive security background (vulnerability testing, penetration testing, red teaming) is a plus
- Experience securing Kubernetes and Docker workloads in production is a plus
What the job involves
- As Pipedream's first dedicated Security Engineer, you will own platform security end-to-end — tooling, process, threat modeling, and audits — while working hands-on in the codebase to find and fix vulnerabilities yourself
- This is a deeply technical individual contributor role with broad scope. You will build a security function from scratch at a platform serving thousands of developers
- Finding and patching vulnerabilities directly in code and dependencies. Pipedream runs a polyglot stack — TypeScript, Rust, Kotlin, Ruby, and more — so you will read and fix code across all of it
- Building and maintaining the platform's threat model, and partnering with Product and Engineering to ship new features securely without slowing them down
- Securing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and the third-party vendor surface (Redis, Datadog, and others)
- Leading incident response for critical security issues
- Owning SOC 2, HIPAA, penetration tests, and other compliance work end-to-end
- Partnering with Workday's security team to translate broader policy into something that fits Pipedream's stack and operations
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
The company has also grown through acquisitions and partnerships to broaden its capabilities.. Most recently, in 2025 it purchases Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge and learning platform, to create a "new front door for work". This acquisition allows Workday to integrate Sana's AI-powered search, agents, and learning capabilities with its own data and workflows, allowing employees to access information, automate tasks, and complete their day entirely within Workday.
Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and in-house development, WOrkday has built a comprehensive suite of HR, financial, and enterprise tools. By focusing on innovation and AI-driven workflows, the company continues to push productivity and decision-making for organizations worldwide. Building on this track record, Workday is very much positioned for even more growth, reinforcing its status as a leader in shaping the future of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)Annel began his career at Morgan Stanley as a Corporate Finance Analyst. He then spent nearly 6 years at PeopleSoft as a Senior VP before co-founding Workday in 2005, where he has served as the CEO ever since.
Carl Eschenbach
(CEO)Carl joined Workday in 2022 as Co-CEO, becoming CEO in 2024. He has also been a Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2016. Previously, he spent 14 years at VMware as President and COO and 3 years at Inktomi Corporation as the VP of North America Sales.
Peter Bailis
(CTO)Prior to joining Workday in 2025, People was a VP of Engineering at Google. He also previously founded Sisu Data, where he served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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