Senior Staff Platform Engineer

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, 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. Role We are looking for a Sr. Staff AI Platform Engineer to join our team. This is an On-site role based in Bangalore/Pune, reporting to the Senior Manager in the IT Data Strategy department. In this position, you will design, scale, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities to support production AI/ML workloads. Operating within the IT Data Strategy team, you will drive infrastructure automation, observability, and platform governance while empowering AI and data engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions reliably and securely. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available AWS infrastructure (EKS, Lambda, ECS, VPC, IAM) for AI/ML workloads using Terraform, following IaC best practices including reusable modules, remote state management, and environment-based blueprints Own and continuously evolve GitLab CI/CD pipelines for AI pl