Principal Architect, Zeta Global
$250-350k
+ Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
The AI marketing cloud
Job no longer available
The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$250-350k
+ Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
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
- You should have deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud architecture , various web and data technologies, cloud computing and be passionate about working with high-throughput systems where the issues of throughput, performance, redundancy, and concurrency are paramount
- Extensive Experience: Minimum of 20 years in software engineering, with prior meaningful experience in playing the key role of an architect
- Technical Proficiency: Expertise in web and data technologies such as Kafka, HDFS, Spark, EMR, Open Table Formats, Snowflake, Hive, HBase, Scylla, Django, and FastAPI
- Cloud Expertise: Proficient in designing, deploying, and managing systems on AWS
- Full Lifecycle Exposure: Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, from inception to production and monitoring
- Programming Skills: Fluency in Python or substantial experience in Scala and Java
- Database Proficiency: Skilled in working with various data stores, including MySQL, Postgres, Scylla, DynamoDB, and Redis
- Big Data Technologies: Expertise in big data technologies and frameworks such as Spark, HDFS, and Hive
- Scheduler Experience: Experience with schedulers like Apache Airflow, Apache Luigi, and Chronos
- Agile Development: Familiarity with agile software development processes
- Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities
What the job involves
- The Principal Architect will lead the development and maintenance of the architectural vision for the company's software systems, providing technical oversight and strategic insight into their evolution
- This role involves engaging with stakeholders, influencing roadmaps, and driving key projects, while evaluating emerging technologies and fostering innovative solutions
- The Principal Architect will mentor team members, collaborate with Product Managers on product design, and work with the DevOps team to optimize infrastructure, ensuring system robustness and observability
- Representing the company at industry events, the Principal Architect will enhance technical leadership and company branding
- Architectural Vision and Oversight: Develop and maintain the vision for the application and integration architecture across various software systems that drive the business
- Technical Leadership: Provide comprehensive technical oversight for different systems, guiding teams in designing and operating production-ready systems
- Strategic Thought Leadership: Offer strategic insight on the evolution of system architecture in the short, medium, and long term
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage in architectural discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives
- Innovation and Problem-Solving: Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges
- Team Mentorship: Mentor and collaborate with team members to optimize current designs, data models, workflows, and APIs
- Product Development Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers to contribute to product design, aiming to create world-class products
- Infrastructure Optimization: Work with the DevOps team to design system infrastructure, address problem areas, and lead in system monitoring, observability, and robustness
- Industry Engagement: Represent the company at industry events as a product and technology evangelist, contributing to company branding and enhancing technical leadership
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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