Drimva

Zscaler

Manager – AI & Data Platform Engineering

$164K–$205K

Santa Clara, California, USA +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026

Location
Santa Clara, California, USA
Remote - USA
Experience
10+ years in a listed engineering or architecture field; 3+ years leading engineering teams.

About the job

Leads engineering teams and platform strategy to evolve Zscaler’s enterprise data platform into an AI-ready platform for knowledge systems, retrieval, and production AI applications.

What you'll do

  • Lead and develop a globally distributed team of data and AI engineers, overseeing execution and performance.
  • Own data and AI pipelines and platform services, delivering trusted AI-ready assets and reliable self-service capabilities.
  • Set platform roadmaps and build reusable agentic operations for monitoring, triage, data quality, and remediation.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, data platform engineering, or data architecture.
  • 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including technical and people leadership.
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Python and SQL, with a foundation in modern data engineering and distributed systems.
  • Experience with Generative AI architectures, especially RAG and enterprise knowledge systems, and production data platforms on AWS or another major cloud using modern tools and dbt.

Nice to have

  • Production experience with RAG or GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, graph and vector databases, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, or re-ranking.
  • Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, or LlamaIndex, and cloud-native tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ray/Ray Data.

Pay

$164,000 — $205,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Python, SQL, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, dbt, Matillion

AI focus

Build AI-ready data and knowledge platforms, including RAG systems, knowledge graphs, AI/LLM data pipelines, production AI infrastructure, and agentic operations.

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