Staff threat Research engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 9 years

Location: India

JobType: full-time

We are seeking a Staff Threat Research Engineer with deep expertise in cloud and SaaS security to drive advanced threat research, detection engineering, and security innovation. This role is ideal for a senior practitioner who combines strong security fundamentals with hands-on engineering, automation, and research capabilities across modern cloud-native environments.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead threat research and detection engineering across cloud, SaaS, and application security domains (CSPM, DSPM, ASPM, or related areas).
• Analyze emerging threats, attack techniques, and misconfigurations impacting cloud-native and SaaS platforms.
• Design and develop security detections, analytics, and research-driven content to improve threat visibility and response.
• Harden SaaS deployments by identifying security gaps and recommending best-practice controls.
• Build automation and tooling using scripting languages to scale threat detection and security analysis.
• Work with API-driven systems to enable security automation and advanced product capabilities.
• Analyze large datasets using SQL and big data platforms to uncover security signals and anomalous behavior.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and security teams to translate research insights into scalable security solutions.
• Contribute to thought leadership, technical documentation, and security research initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• 9+ years of experience in security research, threat detection, or cloud security engineering.
• Strong foundation in information security, with a preference for SaaS and cloud-first environments.
• Hands-on experience with CSPM, DSPM, ASPM, or similar security domains.
• Proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, or similar languages for automation and rapid prototyping.
• Strong knowledge of public cloud security architectures and services.
• Experience working with databases (SQL) and large-scale data platforms such as Spark or BigQuery.
• Exposure to API-based automation and modern product-driven security solutions.

Skills

• Threat Research & Detection
• Cloud & SaaS Security
• CSPM / DSPM / ASPM
• Python & Automation
• Security Analytics
• API-driven Security Engineering