Zscaler

Cybersecurity

PrincipalGenAIDataEngineer

$182–260k United States Remote Friendly
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

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