Senior Software Engineer Platform Security

Chennai - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Your work days are brighter here.

Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Our Workday Platform Security team is at the forefront of revolutionizing how we manage and secure data for both Workday services and our global customer base. Demonstrating innovative technologies were building scalable platforms and services that fuel Workdays growth while maintaining unwavering protection of our data and infrastructure.

Joining our team means directly contributing to the development and support of enterprise-grade security tools vital to our platform security strategy. If youre driven by a passion for safeguarding millions of customers data and eager to implement security solutions at scale this is your opportunity to be part of a top-priority initiative with significant customer demand.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software developer with experience in developing in Java as well as an interest in security to join us in building the most secure services on premises and in Hybrid Cloud environments.

You should have experience designing scalable customer-centric systems and a passion for delivering secure software solutions. Along with senior leaders principal engineers and security specialists you will solve challenges of growing and operating a globally distributed cryptographic security service. This roles charter is to develop build deploy and support platform security specific solutions and infrastructure to help protect Workday customers data.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to work in a production focused organization. You will be working in a rapidly moving environment where resilience and scalability are key non-functional requirements. This will require you to work effectively within your own team but also to coordinate with others in teams both locally and in other timezones.

You will be:

Architecting designing implementing testing and deploying services with robust unit tests and metrics
Driving continuous improvement within the team to ensure a high quality service
Delivering quality features on-time and on-budget and implementing towards project plans and delivery commitments
Leading team members to handle the day-to-day development activities participate in designs design review code review and implementation
Mentoring and leading junior engineers and guiding them towards good software development techniques
Maintaining current technical knowledge to support evolving technology always on a look out for new technologies and working with the team in bringing them in.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
8 years Software Development experience taking ownership of the design development and delivery of software components.
Strong proficiency in Java or Scala Design Patterns Distributed Systems design and effective communication of design ideas.
Solid understanding of TCP/IP HTTP SSL/TLS.
Full lifecycle Software Engineering experience: coding standards testing code reviews SCM (e.g. Git) operations.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a proven ability to tackle production incidents effectively during on-call responsibilities.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for global team interaction.

Other Qualifications:

Familiarity with cryptographic/encryption technologies & procedures (AES RSA Hash FIPS etc) and systems like Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate Authority (CA) Key Management Systems (KMS) or Hardware Security Modules (HSM).
Experience with AWS and GCP

Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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Your work days are brighter here.Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on w...