About the company
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. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.
Responsibilities
- Translate risk identification methods into agent logic, understanding the benefits and limitations of agents and ensuring quality across risk analysis, explanations, and recommendations.
- Collaborate closely with threat-research to understand data, 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 solutions in production within the 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.
- 8+ 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, incident debugging in live distributed systems, and familiarity with cloud and infrastructure-as-code in an AWS environment.
- Sr. Staff level ownership and leadership of emergent requirements, architecture, and complex engineering projects.
Conditions
- Remote (USA) role.
- Base salary range: $157,500 – $225,000 USD per year, excluding commission/bonus/equity and benefits.
- Comprehensive benefits program.