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Zscaler
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09/22/2026
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Bengaluru, India

Responsibilities

Build and scale the agentic layer of the AI-native Product Operations Platform.
Design production-grade AI systems, reusable platform capabilities, and reliable execution patterns.
Develop agentic AI capabilities using RAG architectures, embeddings, vector retrieval, orchestration, and workflow state management.
Create harnesses for prompt testing, agent debugging, workflow replay, evaluation, regression testing, tracing, and controlled experimentation.
Build and maintain graph-based workflows with multi-step reasoning, tool calling, branching, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and stateful execution.
Establish standards, patterns, and guardrails for scalable, reliable, observable AI development.

Requirements

5+ years of industry experience, including 2–3 years focused on AI development harnesses such as test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, workflow replay tools, tracing, observability, and prompt or agent regression testing.
Experience building and deploying production agentic AI systems, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector retrieval systems.
Familiarity with prompt engineering, orchestration patterns, agent workflows, graph-based execution models, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails.
Practical understanding of agentic loops involving planning, retrieval, tool execution, validation, retries, reflection, and termination criteria.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Hands-on software engineering experience with FastAPI, NextJS, and Postgres is preferred.
Experience designing AI systems for low cost, high throughput, extensibility, observability, and long-term scalability is preferred.

Benefits

Hybrid work arrangement.
Various health plans.
Vacation and sick time off plans.
Parental leave options.
Retirement options.
Education reimbursement.
In-office perks.
Inclusive benefits supporting employees and their families.

Zscaler

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