Zscaler

Principal Software Development Engineer - Agentic Systems

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5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture and development of scalable AI/ML infrastructure, LLM serving platforms, and agentic workflows for cloud-scale cybersecurity use cases.
  • Design reusable networking, security, authentication, and monitoring foundations for enterprise AI/ML services.
  • Implement observability, evaluation, and reliability frameworks for production AI systems.
  • Drive cross-functional architectural initiatives with product, security, and operations teams.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship on distributed systems design and communicate complex architectures to non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions.
  • Experience designing and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems with expertise in availability, fault tolerance, consistency, and cloud-native microservices.
  • Expertise in LLMs and production AI/ML infrastructure, including orchestration frameworks, inference systems, and full-lifecycle pipeline operations.
  • Track record of cross-organizational technical leadership, architectural decision-making, team mentorship, and shipping production-grade services.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred experience with autonomous AI agentic workflows, domain-specific LLM fine-tuning, LLM observability, explainability, evaluation frameworks, serverless architectures, networking, identity, encryption, access control, VPC, and network security.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement based in Bangalore.
  • Various health plans, vacation and sick time off, parental leave, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.
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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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