# Sr Active Defense Engineer at Workday

- Company: Workday
- What the company does: Experience a new way to work with Sana and agentic AI from Workday. Backed by Greylock, NEA and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.workday.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: USA.VA.Reston
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $239K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://workday.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Workday/job/USAVAReston/Sr-Cybersecurity-Engineer_JR-0107488
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/workday-sr-active-defense-engineer/

## About the role

As a member of the Active Defense team, you will get an opportunity to collaborate with a large cross-section of teams across Workday to understand the threat landscape, execute threat hunting and offensive security exercises and discover potential vulnerabilities. You will test detection coverage, perform gap analysis and then use this information to develop and refine alerting logic. You will also help develop adaptive and AI-assisted detection and response capabilities.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of proven abilities in one or more of: incident response, intelligence analysis, vulnerability assessment, security engineering or security operations
- Experience researching cybersecurity threats and creating security solutions
- Experience using AI-based discovery and exploit creation tools to mimic adversary capabilities
- Experience in a general-purpose programming language like Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, or JavaScript
- Experience responding to cybersecurity incidents and helping to mitigate threats
- Experience reverse engineering malware, suspicious code and vulnerabilities