Lead Software Engineer, Zeta Global
Opportunity Insights
$190-205k
+ Employee Equity
The AI marketing cloud
Open for applications
The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$190-205k
+ Employee Equity
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
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade distributed systems
- Strong foundation in computer science, distributed systems, and large-scale system design
- Proven experience architecting systems that operate on large datasets (event streams, batch + real-time pipelines, high-throughput services)
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized microservices architectures
- Experience with streaming and data infrastructure technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL databases (e.g., Aerospike)
- Strong proficiency in Java, Python, Ruby, or similar object-oriented languages
- Experience designing APIs and service communication layers (REST, gRPC, Thrift)
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design reviews and influence engineering direction
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment
- Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools to improve engineering productivity
Desirable
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
- Experience building platforms that support ML or advanced analytics workloads
- Experience modernizing or evolving legacy systems into scalable cloud-native architectures
- Track record of leading high-impact, cross-team engineering initiatives
What the job involves
- Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Opportunity Insights team. This role is for a highly experienced engineer who operates at system and platform scope — someone who can define architecture, drive technical direction, and deliver scalable, data-intensive systems that power marketing intelligence products
- You will lead the design and evolution of distributed systems running on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), enabling large-scale data processing and real-time insights across billions of data points. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to influence engineering standards across teams
- Define and evolve the architecture of scalable, distributed systems deployed on AWS
- Design and operate microservices and data-intensive workloads running in Kubernetes (EKS)
- Lead technical design for systems that process and analyze large-scale datasets (high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety data)
- Establish patterns and best practices for building resilient, observable, and performant services
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering leaders to translate business strategy into long-term technical roadmaps
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions beyond your immediate team
- Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing strategies across relational and NoSQL systems
- Mentor engineers, raise the bar on design and code quality, and lead through technical example
- Take end-to-end ownership of critical platform components, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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