Lead Software Engineer, Zeta Global
Identity
$150-200k
+ equity
The AI marketing cloud
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The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$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
- 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at scale
- Strong skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven design
- Hands-on experience with Kafka (or similar), Spark/Hive/Flink, and workflow schedulers (Airflow/Luigi)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and deployment practices (Helm, service meshes)
- Solid knowledge of SQL, data modelling, and cloud platforms (AWS)
- Familiarity with columnar / NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase)
- Strong communication skills and a track record of driving technical direction and mentoring teams
Desirable
- Experience with large-scale or multi-tenant distributed systems
- Exposure to real-time streaming frameworks (Flink, Storm)
- Knowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake)
- Background in security, compliance, or privacy related to identity systems
What the job involves
- At Zeta Global, identity is at the core of our marketing cloud
- The Identity team builds and operates backend services that power the Zeta Identity Graph - collecting, resolving, and maintaining billions of behavioral, demographic, and transactional signals
- These services enable people-based marketing at scale, ensure trust and transparency in how identity data is managed, and provide critical APIs and event streams consumed across Zeta’s platform
- Our systems support more than 235 million consumer profiles and process billions of events monthly, requiring services that are highly available, low-latency, and built to scale
- We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who brings strength in both backend distributed systems and data engineering
- In this role, you’ll design APIs and event-driven services, scale our systems to handle rapidly growing data volumes, and modernize our platform for resilience, transparency, and performance
- Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and integrations
- Develop and optimize event-driven pipelines and workflows processing billions of signals
- Deploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes, leveraging Helm for repeatable deployments
- Ensure reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and data teams to deliver end-to-end identity solutions
- Mentor engineers and influence architecture and roadmap
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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