Description
We are looking for a Staff Detection Engineer to join our team in Pune. This is a hybrid role reporting to the Senior Manager, Threat Researcher in the Threat Hunting department.
As a Staff Detection Engineer, you will own a coverage area and be accountable for its technical direction, overall efficacy, and high-standard content development. You will decide what gets built next, set the bar for detection content, and personally handle the most complex design decisions and detector implementations.
Key responsibilities:
- Take complete accountability for your domain's health, backlog prioritization, and performance
- Personally tackle the hardest detection challenges to establish design patterns, coding standards, and implementation blueprints for the rest of the team
- Define clear criteria for validated, tuned, and maintainable content
- Identify and actively drive the core numbers that define area health
- Systematically translate input from threat intelligence, proactive threat hunting, and SOC analyst feedback into concrete roadmap priorities and continuous engine improvements
Requirements:
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions
- Deep detection experience in at least one of Endpoint, Cloud/SaaS, Identity, Email, or SIEM
- A track record of owning technical work end-to-end and being answerable for its quality
- A strong grasp of how attackers operate, and fluent use of ATT&CK
- Detector-as-code, version control, code review, and controlled deployment as the way you already work
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience leveraging AI-driven automation, LLMs, or machine learning models
- Programming/scripting to build detection tooling and automation
- Reverse engineering or deeper malware analysis
At Zscaler, we offer comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families, including various health plans, time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.