Lead Software Engineer, Zeta Global
Data Connectivity
$150-200k
+ Equity
The AI marketing cloud
Open for applications
The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ 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 in backend with at least 2 years in technical leadership roles
- Strong proficiency with Python, Go, or Java, and familiarity with distributed systems concepts (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar)
- Deep understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and connector architectures
- Hands-on experience with cloud data ecosystems — AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3), GCP, or Azure
- Expertise in REST/gRPC API design, OAuth, and webhook-based integrations
- Experience on building self-healing high through put data pipelines
- Experience with at least one of the query engines - Trino, Athena, Spark
Desirable
- Experience working in one of the Data lake house technologies - Iceberg, Delta Lake
- Experience with Temporal or other similar technologies
What the job involves
- As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll own the design, development, and evolution of the core data connectivity systems that power our Zeta Marketing Platform
- You will collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers and Executives across the organization to develop a roadmap and subsequent projects to build the next generation comprehensive, multichannel marketing solution that unifies and unlocks data across digital touch points, driving return on marketing investment
- This includes building scalable integrations between marketing data sources (CRMs, ad networks, analytics tools, and data warehouses) and the platform’s core datastore
- You’ll lead a team of engineers in technical aspect to deliver high-performance data pipelines and APIs that enable frictionless ingestion, synchronization, and delivery of large-scale customer and campaign data
- Design, Architect, implement, and operate Python-based microservices and high-throughput ETL/ reverse ETL pipelines that meet enterprise SLAs, RPO/RTO targets, and data quality standards
- Embed observability by default through structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing; define SLOs, error budgets, and incident response runbooks for production services
- Conduct design and code reviews, performance and cost optimizations, and challenge fellow engineers to raise the bar on engineering excellence and operational maturity
- Design and evolve reusable connector frameworks for inbound and outbound integrations with Ad tech platforms like Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and other enterprise systems, emphasizing modularity, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Collaborate with Product, SecOps, and Platform teams to deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions across Kubernetes, message buses, and workflow orchestrators
- Evaluate designs of other team members
- Mentor junior members and provide technical guidance on the team
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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