Senior Software Engineer, Zeta Global
Data Platform
$165-185k
+ Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
The AI marketing cloud
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The AI marketing cloud
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$165-185k
+ Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
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 of software engineering experience
- Strong experience in Python, Scala, Java, or another JVM language
- Experience with Spark or another distributed data-processing framework
- Experience building or operating production data platforms, backend systems, or distributed systems
- Familiarity with at least 1 of these areas: Lakehouse architecture, Apache Iceberg, data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, query engines, or real-time OLAP
- Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Athena, and IAM
- Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, and incident response
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, Trino, ClickHouse, Starrocks, or Pinot is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will build and operate the data infrastructure that supports Zeta’s products, analytics, machine learning, and AI systems
- This is a broad platform role. Engineers on the team take ownership across Lakehouse architecture, distributed compute, data quality, governance, lineage, security, access controls, and the operational systems that keep the platform running. Individual focus areas will change with team priorities, and you will contribute across the platform as needed
- The team also develops tooling for type-safe, testable data pipelines and operates Spark workloads on dynamically sized Hadoop clusters backed by EC2 Spot instances. We work closely with data engineers, data scientists, infrastructure teams, and product teams to make data dependable, easy to find, secure to use, and cost-effective to process
- Build and operate Lakehouse, Spark, and distributed data-processing systems
- Improve the performance, reliability, cost, and operational visibility of platform workloads
- Develop capabilities for data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, discoverability, security, and access control
- Build the data context required for trusted reporting, ML models, and AI agents
- Evaluate compute and query engines for read-heavy workloads, assessing cost, performance, reliability, and operational fit
- Assess real-time OLAP technologies and identify appropriate production use cases
- Improve deployment, observability, incident response, developer tooling, and platform operations
- Partner with data scientists and data engineers to improve their experience using the platform
- Contribute fixes and improvements to relevant open-source projects, including Spark, Iceberg, and Airflow
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
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 to 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 strengthens Zeta's "One Zeta" model, creates cross-selling opportunities, and extends its footprint 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 co-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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