Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure.
The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges.
Responsibilities
Translate risk identification methods into agent logic, understanding the benefits and limitations of agents, and how to ensure quality in different types of tasks, including risk analysis, explanations, and recommendations
Collaborate closely with threat-research to understand data and threats and their approach to developing security heuristics
Identify and solve data requirements for analysis, developing and collaborating with data engineering teams for pipelines, enrichments, and aggregations
Follow a data-driven quality approach to threat-detection: including backtesting, balancing precision vs recall, tuning, and quality control
Deploy and monitor your solutions in production in our CI/CD framework
Requirements
Experience building LLM-powered agents in production: tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, multi-step orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, or equivalent), and evaluation of non-deterministic output against ground truth
3+ years of professional Python development, with demonstrated ability to design and maintain production-quality systems with validated inputs, data contracts, and comprehensive unit and integration tests, alongside hands-on expertise with SQL and Python data analytics libraries (e.g., pandas, Polars, NumPy)
Demonstrated ownership of production reliability: CI/CD, containerization, structured logging and metrics, observability and alerting, on-call participation, and incident debugging in a live distributed system, with familiarity with cloud and infrastructure-as-code in an AWS environment
Senior-level ownership and leadership of projects, development, and testing
Conditions
Base Pay Range: $115,500 — $165,000 USD
The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.