F5 Sr Engineer - Data Scientist API Security 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

888315847

Primary Responsibilities:

• Own the full lifecycle of security detection features, including data research, design, development, testing, and deployment of threat detection systems.
• Build and optimize algorithms to detect API-specific attacks (e.g., OWASP API Top 10) based on behavioral analysis, anomaly detection, and large-scale data analysis.
• Perform extensive data research to identify new attack patterns, vulnerabilities, or anomalies and translate findings into actionable, automated detection logic.
• Collaborate with global engineering, product management, and SRE teams to develop scalable and secure solutions for detecting and responding to API threats.
• Maintain data pipelines, models, and algorithms in containerized architectures updated with the latest packages and aligned with SRE guidelines.
• Troubleshoot data-driven issues in complex, multi-service architectures and collaborate across teams to resolve them.

Job Requirements:

• Data Science Expertise : Strong knowledge of data science techniques applied to security, such as hh, and statistical analysis.
• Programming Proficiency : Expertise in at least two programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Scala, Rust), with advanced skills in Python preferred for data science tasks.
• Data Analysis and Research : Experience with large-scale datasets, developing detection algorithms, and translating insights into productized solutions.
• SaaS and Cloud Environments : Proficient in building secure SaaS applications, containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration and Communication : Strong interpersonal and analytical skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and explain technical findings clearly.

Significant Advantage:

• API Security Expertise : Strong knowledge of the API Security domain, threat detection techniques, and experience in data research. (strong advantage)
• Data Technologies : Spark Databases, Databricks, Kafka, SQL, Pandas Dataframes, etc.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience combining software engineering and data science work, with expertise in API Security and the development of detection systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.