Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Engineer, Workday
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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
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To leverage the power of AI to elevate humans and supercharge work, moving business forever forward.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of proven abilities in one or more of: incident response, intelligence analysis, vulnerability assessment, security engineering or security operations
- Experience collecting, processing and analyzing intelligence
- 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)
- A strong understanding of current affairs, and international relations, evidenced by knowledge of geopolitical dynamics as they relate to state-sponsored intelligence operations
- Experience with Social Media and/or Open Source Intelligence gathering and/or analysis
- Experience responding to cybersecurity incidents and helping to mitigate threats
- Experience building, using and refining a Threat Intelligence Platform
- Experience reverse engineering malware, suspicious code and vulnerabilities
- Enthusiastic about new emerging topics in security/intelligence, data science and/or machine learning
- Dedication to maintain domain proficiency and a professional network with our partners and other interest groups
- Strong communication skills and an ability to present technical information to a non-technical audience
What the job involves
- Come be a part of Workday's Emerging Threats team! 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 test our defenses rapidly
- We perform detailed analysis 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
- As a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence 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 cyber resilience by testing Workday's defenses using the latest information gleaned from threat intelligence
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.
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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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