Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zscaler accelerates digital transformation to ensure customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Principal GenAI Data Engineer will drive the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Generative AI data ingestion and platform architectures, focusing on architecting robust pipelines for enterprise data for AI workloads.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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)
- 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
Benefits
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
Company Overview
Zscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that enables secure digital transformation for mobile and cloud. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.zscaler.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Zscaler has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 19 in 2026, 164 in 2025, 220 in 2024, 108 in 2023, 144 in 2022, 82 in 2021, 51 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.