Zscaler

Principal GenAI Data Engineer

Zscaler
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Bellevue, WA, USA or Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$186k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect enterprise-scale GenAI data platforms for ingesting, transforming, enriching, governing, and serving structured and unstructured data.
  • Design scalable enterprise knowledge ingestion pipelines spanning documents, SaaS platforms, knowledge bases, collaboration tools, and databases.
  • Define metadata extraction, chunking, enrichment, embeddings generation, and knowledge preparation workflows.
  • Design AI-ready data models and storage strategies for vector, graph, and hybrid knowledge systems.
  • Architect unstructured data processing pipelines for text, images, PDFs, tables, and multimodal content.

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions within a functional domain.
  • Expert-level Python programming and software engineering capabilities.
  • Experience building distributed and scalable data pipelines for AI workloads.
  • Strong understanding of unstructured data extraction and processing pipelines.
  • Experience with vector databases, graph databases, and metadata or knowledge storage systems.
  • Hands-on experience with clustering, entity recognition algorithms, and retrieval strategies including RAG, search, and agentic AI workflows.
  • Preferred: experience architecting real-time distributed vector search infrastructure and multimodal knowledge graph pipelines for enterprise RAG applications.
  • Preferred: experience with LangSmith, Arize Phoenix, Weights & Biases, MLflow, LangGraph, CrewAI, or Google ADK.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the office in Santa Clara, CA, or Bellevue, WA.
  • Various health plans, vacation and sick time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
  • Full-time employment with additional comprehensive benefits for employees and families.

Tech Stack

MLflowPython

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Zscaler

5,001-10,000 employees

Zscaler builds a cloud-delivered zero trust security platform that replaces traditional network security appliances for enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its Zero Trust Exchange provides secure web gateway, zero trust access, CASB, and cloud firewall services, sold as subscriptions and delivered across 160+ global data centers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ZS) serving thousands of customers worldwide.

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