Staff MLOps Engineer
Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Zscaler
Job Description
About Zscaler
Zscaler is a pioneer and global leader in zero trust security. The world’s largest businesses, critical infrastructure organizations, and government agencies rely on Zscaler to secure users, branches, applications, data & devices, and to accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Distributed across more than 160 data centers globally, the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform combined with advanced AI combats billions of cyber threats and policy violations every day and unlocks productivity gains for modern enterprises by reducing costs and complexity.
Here, impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We believe in transparency and value constructive, honest debate—we’re focused on getting to the best ideas, faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this, we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession, collaboration, ownership and accountability.
We champion an “AI Forward, People First” philosophy to help us accelerate and innovate, empowering our people to embrace their potential. If you’re driven by purpose, thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale, we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler to help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Role
We are looking for a Staff AI Platform Engineer to join our IT Enterprise Data & AI Platform Team. This role is based in a hybrid capacity, reporting to the Senior Manager of Enterprise Data Strategy You will help build the world’s largest cloud security platform from the ground up, utilizing your vision and passion to enable organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy. You will be the key architect driving the creation of a scalable and modular AI platform that supports millions of users across 185 countries.
What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
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Lead the creation of a scalable and modular AI platform utilizing technologies like Qdrant, Anyscale, and Ray for LLM orchestration, vector search, and multi-agent frameworks
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Build essential APIs and infrastructure to enable conversational applications, AI agents, and analytics tools
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Execute workflows for Large Language Models including inference pipelines, fine-tuning, caching, and evaluation for both open-weight and hosted models
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Deploy AI services on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS), Lambda, and ECS while fine-tuning vector databases and model runtimes for optimized cost and performance
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Partner with engineering teams for smooth AI integration, establishing governance standards, and mentoring junior engineers on AI infrastructure development
Who You Are (Success Profile)
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You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.
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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. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
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You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
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You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the t
