19 hours ago
Base Salary
$116k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate risk-identification methods into agent logic for risk analysis, explanations, and recommendations.
- Collaborate with threat-research teams to understand customer data, threats, and security heuristics.
- Identify data requirements and partner with data engineering teams on pipelines, enrichments, and aggregations.
- Apply backtesting, precision-recall balancing, tuning, and quality control to threat-detection systems.
- Deploy and monitor production solutions using the organization’s CI/CD framework.
- Own production reliability through observability, alerting, on-call participation, and incident debugging.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional Python development experience.
- Production experience building LLM-powered agents, including tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, multi-step orchestration, and evaluation of non-deterministic outputs against ground truth.
- Experience designing and maintaining production-quality systems with validated inputs, data contracts, comprehensive unit tests, and integration tests.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and Python data analytics libraries such as pandas, Polars, and NumPy.
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization, structured logging and metrics, observability, alerting, on-call participation, and live distributed-system incident debugging.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code in an AWS environment.
- Senior-level ownership and leadership of projects, development, and testing.
- Preferred experience with production AI or ML systems balancing cost, latency, and accuracy, including model selection, routing, and regression testing.
- Preferred background in cyber threat research, threat modeling, threat hunting, detection engineering, data-driven risk analysis, fraud detection, adversary profiling and targeting, actuarial risk, or related investigation processes.
- Preferred data engineering experience with high-volume event-data pipelines, columnar or search-backed stores, schema evolution, backfills, and data-quality validation.
Benefits
- Remote position based in the USA.
- Various health plans, vacation and sick time, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
- Zscaler offers a hybrid working model and inclusive employee benefits.
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About Zscaler
Zscaler builds a cloud-delivered zero trust security platform that replaces traditional network security appliances for enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its Zero Trust Exchange provides secure web gateway, zero trust access, CASB, and cloud firewall services, sold as subscriptions and delivered across 160+ global data centers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ZS) serving thousands of customers worldwide.