This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 9 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Staff Threat Research Engineer with deep expertise in cloud and SaaS security to drive advanced threat research, security analysis, and automation initiatives. This role requires strong technical depth, hands-on problem solving, and the ability to work across up-to-date cloud and data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

- Conduct advanced threat research across SaaS, cloud, and application security domains
- Design and develop security detections and threat models for CSPM, DSPM, ASPM, and related platforms
- Perform in-depth security analysis and contribute to SaaS deployment hardening and security best practices
- Build and maintain security content, detections, and automation to identify and mitigate emerging threats
- Leverage scripting and automation to improve threat research workflows and response effectiveness
- Analyze large-scale security and telemetry data to uncover attack patterns and anomalies
- Collaborate with product, engineering,



and security teams to translate research into scalable security capabilities

Required Skills & Experience

- 9+ years of experience in the security domain, including CSPM, DSPM, ASPM, or similar areas
- Strong foundation in information security with a preference for SaaS-focused environments
- Hands-on experience in security analysis, SaaS security hardening, or security content development
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Shell for automation and analysis
- Solid knowledge of public cloud security concepts and cloud-native security solutions
- Experience working with databases and data platforms, including SQL and big data frameworks (e.g., Spark, BigQuery)
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills

Good to Have

- Experience with API-driven automation and integrations
- Background in building novel security products or security research tooling
- Exposure to large-scale data processing and analytics for threat detection

Skills

- Threat Detection
- SQL
- Python
- Cloud Security
- SaaS Security

📌 Staff Threat Research Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Important Group
📍 Bengaluru