Zscaler
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Agentic AI & Digital Experience
About Zscaler
Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
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 value high-impact, high-accountability with a sense of urgency where you’re enabled to do your best work and embrace your 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 and help shape the future of cybersecurity.
Our Engineering team built the world's largest cloud security platform from the ground up, and we keep building. With more than 100 patents and big plans for enhancing services and increasing our global footprint, the team has made us and our multitenant architecture today's cloud security leader, with more than 15 million users in 185 countries. Bring your vision and passion to our team of cloud architects, software engineers, security experts, and more who are enabling organizations worldwide to harness speed and agility with a cloud-first strategy.
We're looking for an experienced Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer to join our Digital Experience team. This role is critical to shape the next generation of Digital Experience with world class tools to identify the insights, root causes, and also enable the agentic AI functionalities. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering, you'll be responsible for:
- Framing high-impact use cases, design agent workflows (tool use, planning, memory, context), and build the frameworks for all the products
- Evaluating and integrating advances in LLMs/SLMs, retrieval, fine-tuning, and inference optimization to deliver reliable, cost-efficient production features
- Designing, implementing, and operating microservices that are observable, resilient, and performant (APIs, data pipelines, orchestration, caching)
- Working with Product, UX, and customers to turn ambiguous problems into measurable wins—clear SLAs, telemetry, and feedback loops
- BS in Computer Science (or related) with 7+ years, or MS/PhD in Computer Science (or related) with 6+ years of experience in solving real world problems leveraging AI/ML and distributed systems
- Exceptional problem-solving skills driven by first-principles thinking, applying expertise in programming, data structures, algorithms, and machine learning
- Proven experience in the full ML model lifecycle— building, deployment, monitoring, and optimization
- Hands-on with modern GenAI stacks (e.g., LangChain/LangGraph, CrewAI, vector stores, RAG, prompts/memory, evaluators)
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed microservices (Kubernetes/Docker, CI/CD, observability; AWS/GCP/Azure) and writing production-grade code in Python, Go, or Java
- Experience fine-tuning and serving proprietary SLMs/LLMs at scale (latency, cost, safety, evals)
- Prior delivery of agentic systems in production, including context engineering and memory management strategies
- Track record building high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems with clear SLOs
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At Zscaler, we are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve and the customers we work with. We foster an inclusive environment that values all backgrounds and perspectives, emphasizing collaboration and belonging. Join us in our mission to make doing business seamless and secure.
Our Benefits program is one of the most important ways we support our employees. Zscaler proudly offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families throughout their life stages, including:
- Various health plans
- Time off plans for vacation and sick time
- Parental leave options
- Retirement options
- Education reimbursement
- In-office perks, and more!
Learn more about Zscaler’s Future of Work strategy, hybrid working model, and benefits here.
By applying for this role, you adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Zscaler policies, including those related to security and privacy standards and guidelines.
Zscaler is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We strive to create a workplace where employees are treated with respect and have the chance to succeed. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. See more information by clicking on the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal link.
Pay Transparency
Zscaler complies with all applicable federal, state, and local pay transparency rules.
Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.
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Zscaler Bengaluru, Karnataka, IND Office
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