Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, productive, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform.

We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler.

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We are looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to join our team. This is a Hybrid role, reporting to the Senior Director, Software Engineering in the ZPA department. You will lead the architecture, deployment, and evolution of large-scale Generative AI platforms and intelligent agent systems in production.

As a hands-on technical leader, you will design high-performance AI systems that are scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready, while building critical platform components and partnering across multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable AI capabilities at scale.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)
- Build and maintain MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to standardize secure interactions between LLMs, agents, enterprise tools, APIs, databases, and local resources
- Design and deploy high-performance containerized Generative AI workloads in production using Docker, Kubernetes, model qua

📌 Principal Software Development Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Zscaler
📍 Bengaluru