Security Architect / Security Engineer

Zscaler is hiring a Security Architect / Security Engineer to design, build, and operationalize security capabilities across Agentic AI and cloud security. The role focuses on production-grade security controls and architectures, embedding secure cloud practices, and coordinating incident response and remediation.

Responsibilities:

• Build secure agent runtimes, reusable libraries, reference implementations, and validation pipelines for agentic AI applications and workflows
• Implement secure agent patterns including planner/executor flows, tool routing, structured outputs, memory/state controls, and RAG trust boundaries
• Design and implement security controls for cloud-native environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM, workload protection, and logging
• Partner with platform and engineering teams to embed secure-by-default cloud controls into shared services and developer workflows
• Lead incident response, triage, and remediation workflows for cloud platforms and AI systems in partnership with SOC and engineering teams

Requirements:

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain
• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or platform security with direct implementation ownership
• Strong coding skills with experience delivering production systems, with Python, TypeScript, or Node
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI systems, including tool/function calling, multi-step planning, RAG, memory/state management, and orchestration
• Strong cloud security experience in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including IAM, logging/monitoring, workload protection, Kubernetes, and IaC security
• Practical experience in incident response, including investigation, coordination, and remediation utilizing SIEM, SOAR, EDR, CSPM, or CNAPP tools
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies and workflows to drive measurable operational efficiency
• Familiarity with OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, and modern cloud security frameworks
• Experience building red-team style testing or evaluation harnesses for LLM applications and agentic systems
• 10+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or platform security with direct implementation ownership