Principal Cloud IAM Engineer

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Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re 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 you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back.

In return, we’ll 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, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

Workday's Cybersecurity & Trust organization exists to inspire confidence and trust in Workday. We safeguard the personal information of 60+ million people and the financial information of some of the largest companies in the world. Cybersecurity is woven into the fabric of Workday and is core to everything we do. We nurture a security-first mentality and believe that moving with speed and velocity is enabled by building security into the foundation.

Build the future of Cybersecurity at Workday by applying innovative technology to a customer-centric platform!
The Workday Enterprise Security team safeguards Workday's vital data, infrastructure, and applications through authority, technical solutions, and risk mitigation across all enterprise systems, concentrating on security architecture, engineering, and infrastructure. We select, engineer, and lead a robust suite of technical controls to actively prevent, detect, and respond to threats. Ultimately, Enterprise Security acts as the central line of defense, proactively leading security posture, ensuring operational resilience, and maintaining customer trust in Workday's dedication to security excellence.
Within Enterprise Security, the Enterprise Identity team is where identity meets impact. We own and evolve the Identity and Access Management systems that serve as Workday's first and most critical line of defense governing who gets access, to what, and why. From zero-trust architecture and privileged access governance to identity lifecycle automation and federation at scale, we operate across one of the most complex enterprise environments in cloud software.

As a Principal IAM Engineer here, you'll architect bold solutions, challenge assumptions, and drive decisions that protect Workday at its core. If you're energized by hard problems at the intersection of identity, security, and engineering excellence, this is where you belong.

About the Role

Workday's identity surface is large, distributed, and growing spanning multi-account AWS environments, enterprise SaaS, a global workforce, and an expanding set of AI-driven workloads. Identity is no longer a support function; it's a core security boundary and an enabler of how we build and ship products.

We're looking for a Principal Identity and Access Management Architect to own the strategy, design, and long-term direction of our IAM program. This is not an operational role. You'll set the patterns other engineers build against, make the architectural calls that shape how we scale, and work directly with engineering, security, and Risk leadership to drive alignment across the organization.

The scope spans human and non-human identity, cloud authorization, federation, secrets management, and the emerging challenge of securing AI agents in production — where the patterns don't fully exist yet and you'll be helping to define them.

This role sits at the intersection of deep technical ownership and cross-functional influence. You'll be expected to…