Senior Application Security Engineer Workday
Pleasanton, CA

Job Description

Join our team and experience Workday!

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun.

Job Description

The Workday Security Team is looking for a seasoned Application Security Engineer who enjoys building creative and impactful security solutions just as much as identifying security issues. You'll be contributing to broad security automation initiatives to help us continue to ensure the security of our platform at scale. You'll also be partnering with software development teams to ensure security is built in from the beginning, not bolted on afterwards. Please keep in mind this is not an intern level, or new grad level role - This is a Senior level role in our organization

* This role may work in San Francisco, Pleasanton or REMOTE *

Responsibilities:

* Architect effective security automation solutions with an emphasis on performance at scale
* Actively contribute quality code to build and maintain security automation platforms
* Perform code reviews and mentor junior team members on effective and secure code development practices
* Partner with internal development and engineering teams to address systemic security issues
* Conduct security assessments with emphasis on identifying application-level risk areas and mitigations

You have:

* BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
* 3 years of demonstrated Application Security experience
* Demonstrated software development proficiency (Scala / Java / Python / Ruby - all pluses)
* Strong experience with build pipeline technologies & SDLC practices
* Passion for building effective security solutions that perform at scale
* Ability to lead & organize software development projects in an agile environment
* Strong written and oral communication skills

You may also have:

* Experience fully automating application security toolsets such as static and dynamic analyzers
* Experience working with AWS, containers, and container orchestration frameworks
* Contributions to the security community (public research, open source, presentations)