2 hours ago
Base Salary
$158k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate risk identification methods into production LLM agent logic, including tool calling, explanations, recommendations, and multi-step orchestration.
- Collaborate with threat researchers to understand customer data, threats, and security heuristics.
- Define data requirements and partner with data engineering teams on pipelines, enrichments, aggregations, schema evolution, and backfills.
- Apply backtesting, precision-versus-recall tuning, regression testing, and quality control to threat detection systems.
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain production solutions with logging, metrics, observability, alerting, and incident debugging.
- Own emergent requirements, architecture, and complex engineering projects at the Senior Staff level.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional Python development experience.
- Production experience building LLM-powered agents using tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, multi-step orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or LangChain, and evaluation against ground truth.
- Experience designing production-quality systems with validated inputs, data contracts, comprehensive unit and integration tests, SQL, and Python analytics libraries such as pandas, Polars, and NumPy.
- Experience with production reliability, CI/CD, containerization, structured logging and metrics, observability, alerting, on-call participation, and incident debugging in distributed systems.
- Familiarity with AWS and infrastructure as code.
- Preferred: production AI or ML systems experience involving model selection, routing, cost, latency, accuracy, and regression testing.
- Preferred: cyber threat research, threat modeling, threat hunting, detection engineering, fraud detection, adversary profiling, actuarial risk, or data-driven risk analysis experience.
- Preferred: data engineering experience with large-volume event pipelines, SQL, columnar or search-backed stores, schema evolution, backfills, and data quality validation.
Benefits
- Remote role in the USA.
- Various health plans, vacation and sick time, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
- Inclusive workplace with equal employment opportunities and reasonable support during recruiting processes.
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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.