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 contemporary 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)
Solid 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)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Bengaluru