Zscaler

Cybersecurity

PrincipalGenAIDataEngineer

$182–260k United States Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Principal GenAI Data Engineer at Zscaler. Skills: GenAI Data Platforms, Data Ingestion, Knowledge Preparation, Python. Architect enterprise-scale GenAI data platforms. Design scalable pipelines for enterprise knowledge ingestion”

What You'll Achieve.

Accelerate digital transformation; Ensure customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure; Protect customers from cyberattacks and data loss; Securely connecting users, devices, and applications; Impact in your role matters; Trust is built on results; Impact over activity; Stay ahead of evolving threats; Getting to the best ideas, faster; Make an impact quickly and with high quality; Culture of execution; Getting to the best ideas, faster; Make an impact quickly and with high quality; Culture of execution; Enable you to do your best work; Embrace your potential; Helping to secure the AI age; Shape the future of cybersecurity; Enable scalable, production-ready GenAI applications; Ingesting, processing, governing, and serving data for AI/LLM workloads; Connect day-to-day work to larger company mission

Industry & Context.

Cybersecurity
Problems you'll solve

Problem-solver; Energized by finding solutions; Solving the hard problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Expert-level Python programming, software engineering capabilities, building distributed/scalable data pipelines for AI workloads, unstructured data extraction and processing pipelines, vector databases, graph databases, metadata/knowledge storage systems, clustering algorithms, entity recognition algorithms, modern retrieval strategies, RAG, search, agentic AI workflows

Nice to Have

Deep understanding of AI-ready data platform design principles, bridge platform/data engineering with GenAI/LLM application requirements, LLMOps / GenAIOps frameworks, LangSmith, Evaluation Framework like Arize Phoenix, Weights & Biases, MLflow, Agent Frameworks, LangGraph, CrewAI, Google ADK

What You'll Do.

Architect enterprise-scale GenAI data platforms

Design scalable pipelines for enterprise knowledge ingestion

Define architecture for metadata extraction

Design AI-ready data models

Architect scalable unstructured data processing pipelines

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

High-trust collaborator; Ambitious for the team; Embrace challenge culture; Giving and receiving ongoing feedback; Candor delivered with clarity and respect

Full Job Description

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 Principal GenAI Data Engineer to join our IT Data Strategy team. This role is fully remote within the US, reporting to the Senior Manager, Enterprise AI Data Platform. We are seeking an experienced technical leader to drive the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Generative AI data ingestion, knowledge preparation, and platform architectures that enable scalable, production-ready GenAI applications. This role focuses on architecting robust pipelines and platforms for ingesting, processing, governing, and serving structured and uns

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