Principal Threat Researcher
Zscaler, Bellevue, Washington +3
The role
We are looking for a Principal Threat Researcher to join our team. This is a remote role, reporting to the Manager Threat Research in the Threat Research Team. As our Principal Threat Researcher, you will serve as the definitive subject matter expert on adversary behavior across Endpoint and Cloud environments. You will dissect, replicate, and outmaneuver sophisticated cyber attack techniques to understand exactly how they operate and how to defeat them.
By translating complex threat research into concrete, scalable detection recommendations, you will act as the innovation driver for our defensive capabilities. In this pivotal role, your insights won't just live in a whitepaper—they will directly prioritize our engineering efforts, shape product strategy, influence vendor telemetry, and ensure robust, industry-leading protection for our entire customer base.
What you will do
- Scope and continuously refine research initiatives, applying an adversarial mindset to analyze emerging attack techniques, customer impact, and detection data sources across at least one operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux) and major Cloud/SaaS providers like AWS, Microsoft 365, and Okta