Principal GenAI Data Engineer

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 unstructured enterprise data for AI/LLM workloads. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in enterprise data architecture unstructured data pipelines GenAI platform engineering and strong software engineering skills in Python.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

• Architect enterprise-scale GenAI data platforms for ingestion transformation enrichment and serving of structured and unstructured data
• Design scalable pipelines for enterprise knowledge ingestion from diverse data sources including documents SaaS platforms knowledge bases collaboration tools and databases
• Define architecture for 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 scalable unstructured data processing pipelines for text images PDFs tables and multimodal content

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. You adapt to what’s needed navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a problem-solver. You seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
• You lead with integrity. You do the right thing even when it’s hard. You hold yourself and others to a high standard of accountability and build trust by matching your words with consistent transparent action.
• You think at scale. You connect your day-to-day work to the larger company mission and think globally. You build solutions processes and teams that are not just effective today but are built to last and support a high-growth global organization.
• You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback—knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.

What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Expert-level Python programming and software engineering capabilities
• Experience building distributed/scalable data pipelines for AI workloads
• Strong understanding of unstructured data extraction and processing pipelines
• Experience with vector databases graph databases and metadata/knowledge storage systems
• Hands-on experience with clustering entity recognition algorithms and modern retrieval strategies (including RAG search and agentic AI workflows)

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Deep understanding of AI-ready data platform design principles and the ability to bridge platform/data engineering with GenAI/LLM application requirements
• Experience with LLMOps / GenAIOps frameworks such as LangSmith Evaluation Framework like Arize Phoenix Weights & Biases or MLflow
• Familiarity with Agent Frameworks like LangGraph CrewAI or Google ADK

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What We Do

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile efficient resilient and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users devices and applications in any location.

Why Work With Us

Our impact comes from how we work—every day in every decision as one team. Our values and leadership principles are more than words; they're our operating system. They fuel a culture of execution where trust transparency and accountability help us deliver meaningful results for our customers colleagues and our company. www.zscaler.com/culture

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