Zscaler

Principal Vulnerability Management Engineer

Zscaler
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5 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead vulnerability and exposure management across infrastructure, cloud, APIs, containers, and other organizational assets.
  • Define risk-based prioritization models that incorporate threat intelligence, business context, exploitability, and asset criticality.
  • Design and deploy automated pipelines and workflow orchestration for asset discovery, authenticated scanning, triage, routing, and validation.
  • Drive external attack surface management and identify gaps such as unauthenticated scans, stale ownership, and untracked exceptions.
  • Partner with DevOps, IT, and engineering teams to translate vulnerability data into remediation guidance, infrastructure improvements, and leadership metrics.
  • Build a scalable product security engineering capability rather than operating only as a reporting and ticket-follow-up function.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in security engineering or product security, including 7+ years driving and scaling vulnerability and exposure management programs in complex environments.
  • Deep understanding of authenticated and unauthenticated scanning, scanner mechanics, coverage gaps, and asset correlation, with proficiency in Tenable, Qualys, Wiz, CrowdStrike, or Burp Suite.
  • Experience implementing risk-based prioritization using exploitability signals, threat intelligence, KEV, EPSS, and asset criticality.
  • Hands-on automation experience with Python, PowerShell, APIs, data pipelines, or workflow orchestration platforms.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to drive remediation and communicate technical findings to senior leadership.
  • Preferred: experience securing AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and Kubernetes-based containerized architectures.
  • Preferred: experience with image scanning, runtime security, CI/CD, DevSecOps, EASM, CTEM, attack-path analysis, CMDBs, asset inventories, and ownership tracking.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Avalor, Nucleus, Tines, Jira, and ServiceNow for automated triage, remediation, and reporting workflows.

Benefits

  • Various health plans
  • Vacation and sick time off plans
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks
  • Remote role based in India with a hybrid working model referenced
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About Zscaler

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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