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# Cyber Security Analyst, Sales Engineering at Zafran Security

- **Company:** Zafran Security
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zafran-security/79b696de-efb7-4a8b-b1a7-d95f3234a798

## Job description

Description

Zafran is actively looking for an experienced Cyber Security Analyst to join the Sales Engineering organization at our dynamic cybersecurity startup. We are looking for an individual who thrives on unraveling the intricacies of computing environments and attackers' techniques, and who turns that understanding into tooling, data, and evidence our customers can act on. This role sits with the field rather than in R&D: you will research live customer and partner environments for risk, own threat intelligence for the go-to-market team, and build the tooling that makes every evaluation faster.

About Zafran:

Our Mission: To stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.

What makes us different: In a world where AI-enabled attackers weaponize vulnerabilities within minutes, the old scan-and-patch-everything model no longer holds. Zafran's Exposure Graph continuously maps every vulnerability across your hybrid environment, chains exploitability through real attack paths and proves 90% of "critical" vulnerabilities can't actually reach you. It then neutralizes the real 10% using your compensating controls and safely remediates only where it matters.

Who’s behind us: Zafran is backed by Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and a deep belief that cybersecurity should move as fast as attackers do. We’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, scaling to meet demand from the world’s most advanced, security-obsessed organizations.

What you will do:

- Build and maintain the tooling the field runs on - scripts, automations, and data utilities that shorten POV setup and remove manual work from the Sales Engineering team.
- Partner with Sales Engineers to stand up Proofs of Value: tenant configuration, integration scoping, data validation, and instrumentation of success criteria.
- Bring in customer data. Connect the customer's existing security stack, validate coverage and data quality, and resolve the ingestion issues that quietly stall evaluations.
- Research customer and partner environments for risk. Analyze vulnerability posture, deployed security controls, and exposure paths to separate what is genuinely exploitable from what is already mitigated by controls the customer already owns.
- Own threat intelligence for the go-to-market organization. Track emerging CVEs and active exploitation campaigns, drive rapid response when something breaks in the news, and arm the field with a credible answer within hours.
- Present findings directly to customer security teams, and back up Sales Engineers when a conversation needs research depth.
- Collaborate with Product, R&D, and Research - feeding field findings, data gaps, and detection misses back with the specifics needed to act on them, and validating new mitigation logic against real customer data.

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a proven track record in research analysis, threat intelligence, threat detection engineering, or threat hunting.
- Ability to collect, process, analyze, and interpret large and imperfect datasets to derive actionable insights, and to reach a conclusion you can defend under challenge.
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages, with a default instinct to automate a repetitive problem rather than repeat it.
- Working knowledge of enterprise security controls - EDR, NGFW, WAF, CNAPP and cloud security, vulnerability scanners - and how each one actually mitigates risk in practice.
- Experience with network/security-related data analysis.
- Proficiency in SQL and TCP/IP network fundamentals.
- Comfort working directly with customers. You can hold technical ground with a skeptical security team and explain a finding clearly instead of hiding behind jargon.
- Strong team player with excellent collaboration skills, and experience managing multi-departmental interactions with cybersecurity professionals, engineering teams, and product managers.
- Self-directed, low-ego, and comfortable with ambiguity and the pace of a fast-growing startup.

Experience with the following is a plus:

- Extensive experience in GO/Python programming languages
- Pre-sales, professional services, or another customer-facing technical role
- Building internal tooling or automation for a field or go-to-market team
- Agentic and LLM-based workflows, and MCP-style integrations
- Prior experience at an early-stage security startup

At Zafran, people matter! We provide a robust benefits program that includes flexible PTO, health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision), a monthly stipend for phone and internet, 401k, flexible spending account, and a home office stipend when joining!

We also provide access to frontier AI models, including Claude, so every employee can work smarter, move faster, and build an AI-first career from day one.

At Zafran, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe the best teams are built by people who think differently, come from all kinds of backgrounds, and aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. We welcome everyone across race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, and veteran status, because what matters most is what you bring to the table.

If you’re curious, fun, and someone who gets things done, we’d love to meet you

## About Zafran Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zafran Security provides an AI-native Threat Exposure Management platform that unifies vulnerability data, assesses exploitability in context, and automates mitigation and remediation using existing security controls.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States [linkedin.com]
- **Founded**: 2023 (inferred from initial seed funding in early 2024) [linkedin.com]
- **Founders**: Sanaz Yashar (CEO) and Ben Seri (CTO) [zafran.io/about]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity (vulnerability / exposure management)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise security teams (Fortune 500 and high-growth companies) [zafran.io/platform]
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Proactively stop the exploitation of vulnerabilities, everywhere.” [zafran.io/about]

## Products & Services
- **Zafran Threat Exposure Management Platform** (SaaS / agentic): End-to-end platform that unifies findings across cloud, on-prem, and AppSec; assesses risk using runtime presence, reachability, exploitability, asset criticality, and existing controls; enables proactive exposure hunting; provides mitigation guidance that leverages compensating controls; and automates remediation via RemOps (generative AI‑powered remediation operations). [zafran.io/platform]
- **Zafran Detector** (released Aug 2025): Continuous vulnerability discovery tool that supplements existing scanners. [linkedin.com]
- **Agentic Remediation™**: AI agents that research CVE conditions, validate exploitability on live assets, generate remediation scripts, and maintain human oversight with approval workflows. [zafran.io/platform]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $105.5M as of December 2025. Breakdown: Seed $5.5M (Mar 2024), Series B $40M (Sep 2024, led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts), Series C $60M (Dec 2025, led by Menlo Ventures). [linkedin.com]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (Doug Leone on board), Cyberstarts (Lior Simon on board), Menlo Ventures (Rama Sekhar on board), Amex Ventures (strategic investor in 2026). Included in Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program. [zafran.io/about, linkedin.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 132 employees (51% YoY growth, +58 people); 30 open positions as of mid‑2026; monthly job postings up 57.9% YoY; expansion across US, Israel, Germany, and UK. [linkedin.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native, context-aware analysis**: Applies each customer’s unique asset criticality, runtime presence, and existing control stack to determine which vulnerabilities are truly exploitable – eliminating up to 90% of critical false positives. [zafran.io/platform]
- **Leverages existing defenses**: Rather than demanding new agents or patch‑only fixes, Zafran maps exposures to compensating controls and provides step‑by‑step mitigation guidance, shrinking exposure windows before patching begins. [zafran.io/platform]
- **Closed‑loop automation**: Agentic Remediation and RemOps reduce manual triage, consolidate overlapping CVEs into single remediation actions, and route work automatically via ticketing integrations. [zafran.io/platform]
- **Founding team with breach‑response experience**: Co‑founders directly investigated breaches resulting from known vulnerabilities, giving the product a practitioner‑driven design. [zafran.io/about]

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the platform’s adoption among large enterprises** (Fortune 500) and expand the partner ecosystem.
- **Continue product innovation** – recent launches include the Zafran Detector and RemOps; ongoing development of agentic capabilities.
- **Global talent acquisition** – aggressive hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success to support 50%+ headcount growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Founded by cybersecurity practitioners who understand the pain of manual vulnerability management. Emphasis on “clarity and speed” and building solutions that make defenders more effective. [zafran.io/about]
- **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in New York, Tel Aviv (Israel), and presence in Germany and the UK. Remote options for certain roles (e.g., Channel Manager listed as Remote – CST). [linkedin.com, zafran.io/careers]
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**: High ratio of technical staff (40% of known department breakdown); talent drawn from top security companies (Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Armis, Microsoft). The company values “customer” focus and “building” as core principles. [linkedin.com]
- **Growth opportunity**: Joining at a Series C stage with proven product‑market fit and a clear path to scale – an ideal time for impact.

## Sources
1. [zafran.io](https://www.zafran.io/)
2. [zafran.io/about](https://www.zafran.io/about)
3. [zafran.io/platform](https://www.zafran.io/platform)
4. [zafran.io/careers](https://www.zafran.io/careers)
5. [linkedin.com/company/zafran-security](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zafran-security)

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