Detection Engineer- SkillBridge Intern

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. As an AI-forward enterprise, we are constantly pushing the envelope, leveraging the world’s largest security data lake to power our cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange platform. This innovation protects our customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.

Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We say, impact over activity. We seek innovators who actively use AI to amplify their impact and who thrive in an environment where we leverage intelligent systems to stay ahead of evolving threats. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.

We value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to be part of the team that’s helping to secure the AI age, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

Role

We are looking for a Detection Engineer- SkillBridge Intern to join our Red Canary R&D (185) team. This is a remote role reporting to the Manager, Detection Engineering. The security landscape is always shifting and introducing new adversaries. Red Canary operates 24/7 to track down threats using the entirety of our customer’s data and deliver fast and practical detections to our customers. Together, we create a customer-centric culture that fosters success, adoption, and continuous growth.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

Use Red Canary’s detection platform to analyze EDR telemetry, alerts, and log sources across several detection domains including Endpoint, Identity, SIEM, and Cloud/SaaS

Publish threats for customers using concisely-written communication while effectively conveying key and important indicators

Research coverage opportunities to create new detectors and tune existing ones through detector development

Improve the Detection Engineering workflow through orchestration and automation

Who You Are (Success Profile)

You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.

You are customer-obsessed. You build deep empathy for the customer—both internal and external—and anchor your decisions in solving their real-world problems. You champion their needs from start to finish, knowing their success is our success.

You operate with urgency. You understand that in a high-gr