Senior Data Engineer, Zeta Global
AdTech Data Platform
The AI marketing cloud
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The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable brands to build repeatable and scalable programs that accelerate business growth, efficiently, and effectively, and drive higher ROI on their marketing investments.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years building and operating production-grade data pipelines
- Strong experience with streaming systems: Kafka (preferred) or AWS Kinesis, and event-driven architectures
- Hands-on experience with processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark (Structured Streaming), Beam, or equivalent
- Proficiency in Python and/or Java/Scala (Go is a plus)
- Strong SQL skills and experience with data modeling for analytics and aggregates
- Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native data patterns (S3 + compute/orchestration services)
- Experience with data warehouses / OLAP (e.g., Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery) and/or real-time analytics stores (e.g., ClickHouse/Druid)
- Familiarity with SQL + NoSQL ecosystems (e.g., Postgres/MySQL + DynamoDB/Cassandra/Redis) for serving/lookup patterns
- Experience with orchestration and CI/CD for data pipelines (Airflow/Argo/Step Functions or equivalents)
- Clear communicator and collaborator; able to explain data systems and trade-offs to mixed audiences
Desirable
- Programmatic advertising domain knowledge: event pipelines for impressions/clicks/conversions, attribution/measurement, pacing/budget signals
- Experience building feature stores or ensuring online/offline parity for ML features
- Lakehouse experience (Delta/Iceberg/Hudi), incremental processing, and backfill strategies at scale
- Strong data governance practices: lineage, access controls, PII handling, privacy-by-design
- Experience operating at “extreme scale” (billions of events/day) and optimizing cost/performance
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate the data processing layer that powers Zeta’s AdTech platform. This is a hands-on role focused on streaming + batch pipelines, producing trusted, reusable aggregates that serve multiple downstream consumers including prediction/ML features, agentic workflows, BI reporting, and measurement
- Build streaming pipelines: Ingest and process high-volume event data using Kafka/Kinesis, handling schema evolution, event-time processing, late data, and deduplication
- Create canonical aggregates: Produce durable, well-defined rollups (campaign, audience, creative, inventory, pacing/spend, conversions, measurement) with consistent semantics and SLAs
- Enable prediction & agents: Deliver feature-ready datasets and near-real-time signals to support model training/scoring, retrieval, and agent decision loops
- Support BI & reporting: Publish governed datasets to analytics systems and warehouses for dashboards, ad-hoc queries, and operational reporting
- Measurement-grade reliability: Implement reconciliation, backfills, audit trails, and quality checks to ensure correctness for reporting and measurement
- Optimize performance & cost: Tune pipeline throughput/latency, storage formats, partitioning, and compute spend across streaming and batch workloads
- Operational excellence & observability: Instrument pipelines with metrics/logs/traces, define SLIs/SLOs, and drive fast detection and root-cause analysis
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Backend, ML/DS, Analytics, and Platform/SRE to define contracts, schemas, and robust data products
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zeta Global is a cloud-based AI marketing platform helping companies acquire, grow and retain customers more efficiently. Its flagship Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) combines identity resolution, consumer intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform. Using one of the industry's largest proprietary database and advanced AI, Zeta makes personalized marketing simple for enterprise brands worldwide.
Its platform is particularly valuable in today's privacy-first, data-driven marketing environment. It helps brands understand individual customers and deliver relevant experience across every channel, from email and SMS ot digital and social. Serving top advertisers and Fortune 500 companies, Zeta turns complex data into actionable insights, so markets have a deeper relationship with their customers and drive measurable results in a competitive landscape.
Recently, Zeta expanded its capabilities with acquisition of Marigold's enterprise software business, adding over 100 enterprise clients and new loyalty and engagement tools. This strenghten's Zeta's "One Zeta" model, creates cross-selling opportunities, and extends its footpirnt in EMEA and APAC. Also backed by strong AI investments, a massive proprietary identity graph, and consistent revenue growth, Zeta is in a good position to help brands deliver smarter, more personalized marketing at scale for years to come.
Steph
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Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2017
$115m
SERIES F
Jul 2015
$125m
LATE VC
Total funding: $310m
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
David A Steinberg
(Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board)Prior to founding Zeta and CAIVIS, they founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004
John Sculley
(Co-Founder, Vice Chairman of ther Board & Investor)Former CEO of Apple Computer. They joined Apple in 1983 when the Company had $600 million in revenues; by the time they left, Apple's revenues exceeded $8 billion.
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