Security Architect / Security Engineer

The role

This role designs, builds and runs security controls for agentic AI systems and cloud environments. The work includes secure agent runtimes, reference architectures, and leading incident response with SOC and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Build secure agent runtimes, reusable libraries, reference implementations and validation pipelines for agentic AI applications
• Implement secure agent patterns including planner/executor flows, tool routing, memory/state controls and RAG trust boundaries
• Design and implement security controls for cloud 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 for cloud platforms and AI systems with SOC and engineering teams

Required qualifications

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing or positioning AI-driven solutions
• 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
• 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 using SIEM, SOAR, EDR, CSPM or CNAPP tools

Nice to have

• Python, TypeScript or Node coding skills
• 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

Benefits

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks

Before you apply

• Accommodations and adjustments are available in the recruiting process for candidates who are differently abled, have long term or mental health conditions, sincerely held religious beliefs, neurodive

About the company

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) provides the Zero Trust Exchange platform, which protects customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices and applications. Its SASE-based platform runs across 200+ public data centers worldwide.