Staff Security Researcher

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

The Staff Security Researcher will report to the Director, Security Research. The Staff Security Researcher will be primarily responsible for identifying emerging threats by leveraging Zscaler’s existing data mining tools as well as our cloud based infrastructure to protect our customers.

ThreatLabZ is the security research arm of Zscaler. This world-class team is responsible for hunting new threats and ensuring that the 15 million users on the global Zscaler platform are always protected. In addition to malware research and behavioral analysis, team members are involved in the research and development of new prototype modules for advanced threat protection on the Zscaler platform, and regularly conduct internal security audits to ensure that Zscaler products and infrastructure meet security compliance standards. ThreatLabZ regularly publishes in-depth analyses of new and emerging threats on its portal, research.zscaler.com.

Responsibilities/What You’ll Do:

• Develop unique tools and utilizing them to automate the process of identifying threats
• Articulate findings of our customers through blogging, media interviews and speaking engagements with strong writing/speaking skills and be comfortable presenting findings to both internal and external audiences
• Exercise strong technical knowledge of web-based threats, and live to identify the next attack vector, no matter how deep it’s hidden

• 10+ years of security research experience incl. exploit kits, malware analysis and reverse engineering
• Proven track record of innovative ideas and an ability to implement them
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and L7 protocols such as HTTP, HTTPs, SMB, DNS, SMTP, RPC etc
• Strong understanding of Threat Landscape
• Strong scripting skills in Perl and Python
• Strong writing skills and examples of past blogs, whitepapers, etc.
• Data mining experience with large security data sets such as IDS, IPS and firewall logs
• Bachelor’s or graduate degree from four-year college or university (preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline), or equivalent security industry work experience

Your Background:

• Experience with threats to mobile devices
• Publication of past research and/or speaking engagements
• Experience writing IDS/IPS signatures

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Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.

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