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Staff Data Engineer

Palo Alto Networks
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LOCATION

India · Onsite

EXPERIENCE

Not specified

TYPE

FullTime

SKILLS REQUIRED

Data EngineeringPythonSQLData PipelinesApache KafkaSparkBigQueryvertex aiData Warehousing

Job description

Overview

Staff Data Engineer role driving impact across data engineering foundations and AI domains, including generative AI initiatives.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement scalable data architectures and datasets that support the organization's evolving data needs, providing the technical foundations for the analytics team and business users.
  • Support and implement large datasets in batch/real-time analytical solutions leveraging data transformation technologies.
  • Enable robust data-level security features and build scalable solutions to support dynamic cloud environments, including financial considerations.
  • Characterize, evaluate, and fine-tune AI agents, such as conversational systems that allow users to query massive datasets using natural language, to improve their accuracy, efficiency, and reliability.
  • Act as an internal consultant across enterprise functions including Go-to-Market (GTM), Product, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.
  • Translate business challenges into data engineering and AI use-cases, identify opportunities for AI-driven solutions, and present findings in a clear, actionable manner.

What you'll need

  • Experience building and optimizing clean, well-structured analytical datasets for business and AI use cases.
  • Experience implementing and supporting Big Data solutions for both batch (scheduled) and real-time (streaming) analytics.
  • Prior experience working extensively within dynamic cloud environments, specifically Google Cloud Services (GCS) BigQuery and Vertex AI.
  • Prior experience developing dashboards in Tableau/Looker or similar data viz platform.
  • Expert-level programming skills in Python.
  • A solid command of SQL for complex querying and data manipulation.
  • Proven ability to work autonomously, navigate ambiguity, and drive projects from concept to completion.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience with generative AI, including hands-on work with LLMs and frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or the Hugging Face ecosystem.
  • Experience in evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI systems or agents.

Details

  • Location: Bangalore, India (Bagmane Tech Park).
  • Work mode: Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
  • Immigration sponsorship: Not available for this position.

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Staff Data Engineer