Staff Data Scientist

About Zscaler

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.

Job Description

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will work in an award-winning team that does full-lifecycle full-stack Machine Learning product development , from feature engineering to model building and evaluation.

Our team’s use cases include but are not limited to threat detection, malware detection, content classification, anomaly detection, and AIOps (advanced networking diagnosis). These various use cases give you the opportunity and challenges to experience multiple machine learning algorithms and tools. You will design and create machine learning models to provide faster and more effective ways to address cloud security, cloud operations, and cloud intelligence use cases.

You might not be an expert in every stage of a Machine Learning project, but you should have interests and curiosity in various parts ranging from the data to the model’s business impact.

• Passion for leveraging ML/AI to solve real-world business problems at scale (better security and better business results).
• Experience in one or more machine/deep learning frameworks.
• Experience with Python and SQL
• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science or another technical field required, data science concentration is a plus; PhD is preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, technical, and communication skills.
• Good business sense.
• Ability to learn, evaluate, and adopt new technologies fast
• Ability to lead and execute projects from start to finish.
• Solid computer science foundation
  
  
  

Desirable Skill Sets

• Experience with various public cloud services (such as AWS, Google, Azure) and ML automation platforms (such as Kubeflow).
• Experience with various program languages such as Go.
• Good understanding of operating systems and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with networking and networking security.
  
  
  

Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission/ bonus/ equity (if applicable) + benefits.

Base Pay Range

$147,000 — $210,000 USD

By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.

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