Threat Detection Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

This role is focused on advanced threat detection. 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 participate in various threat hunting and offensive security exercises to discover potential vulnerabilities and test detection coverage perform data and detection gap analysis and then use this information to develop and refine alerting logic while applying innovative techniques on large volumes of real-time data. You will also help develop adaptive and AI-assisted detection capabilities that use behavioral baselines entity-level context and automation to support detection development detection validation threat hunting and pre-production alert baselining. You will have the flexibility of a hybrid schedule.

About You

Basic Qualifications
You have:
Security analytics and detection engineering experience: You have 2 years of experience analyzing security logs building or maintaining detection logic and translating threat intelligence attacker behavior or incident learnings into practical detections.
Software development expertise: You have 2 years of experience in a general-purpose programming language like Python Java Kotlin Scala or JavaScript to build effective detection tools.
Public cloud environments: Developing securing and monitoring applications in public cloud environments.
Technical foundation: BS or MS degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualifications
Proactive Threat Hunting: Leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework to identify and hunt for threats based on IOCs and IOAs
AI-assisted detection development: Experience developing or applying agents automation or workflow orchestration to improve detection engineering detection validation threat hunting or pre-production alert baselining outcomes.
Offensive security: Experience using AI-based discovery and exploit creation tools to mimic adversary capabilities.
System knowledge: Experience with networking and Linux operating systems.
Modern application security: Understanding of containerized applications and associated security challenges.
Adaptive detection analytics: Familiarity with behavior anomaly detection entity-level baselines outlier detection clustering and forecasting techniques.
Security tools: Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk and Elasticsearch.
Development best practices: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

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The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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