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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