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Manager – AI & Data Platform Engineering

Zscaler · Santa Clara, California, USA · On-site

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About Zscaler

Zscaler is a leading cloud enterprise security provider helping global businesses adopt zero trust for secure digital transformation. Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You possess a comprehensive understanding of the complete engineering lifecycle from enterprise data ingestion and transformation to knowledge retrieval, context engineering, and production agent deployment
  • You are equally adept at driving architectural strategy and engaging in technical implementation details, making pragmatic decisions to eliminate technical debt
  • You are an inspiring people leader committed to hiring, mentoring, and advancing engineering team members while cultivating a culture of ownership and engineering excellence
  • Practical understanding of Generative AI architectures, particularly RAG and enterprise knowledge systems, with experience designing pipelines for structured and unstructured data
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data platform engineering, or data architecture
  • 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams with demonstrated technical and people leadership
More about this role

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 200+ public data centers globally and thousands of private sites at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.

We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler.

We are looking for a technically strong, hands-on Manager – AI & Data Platform Engineering within the Enterprise Data & AI Platform...

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