WHO WE ARE
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the Data-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs.
THE ROLE
Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) is a machine learning/AI powered customer acquisition and CRM multi-tenant platform. The Sr backend developer will work on server-side APIs and services that enable a highly distributed event pipeline and a stack that gets tens of thousands of messages per second.
As a senior member of the Software Engineering team, you will join the group responsible for designing, developing, and owning the distributed systems CRM platform for Zeta. You will collaborate with your fellow Engineers and Product Managers 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.
You should have a deep knowledge of distributed systems and cloud architecture. You will need extensive design and development experience and be passionate about working with high-throughput systems where the issues of throughput, performance, redundancy, and concurrency are paramount.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Design, implement and launch new product features using technologies that are in-use currently within the company or propose alternative technologies, with proven significant cost and performance advantage.
- Thought Leadership & Innovation: Participate in evaluating technology alternatives, existing or emerging, to problems being solved in the product area of responsibility.
- Engineering Collaboration: Engage in architectural discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives.
- Team Mentorship: Mentor and collaborate with team members to optimize current designs, data models, workflows, and APIs.
- Product 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.
Requirements & Qualifications:
- Extensive Experience: Minimum of 15 years in software engineering, with prior meaningful experience in data engineering.
- Technical Proficiency: Expertise in web and data technologies such as Kafka, HDFS, Spark, EMR, Open Table Formats, Snowflake, Hive, HBase, Scylla, Django, and FastAPI.
- Big Data Technologies: Expertise in big data technologies and frameworks such as Spark, HDFS, and Hive.
- 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 – equivalent of MySQL, Postgres, Scylla, DynamoDB, Aerospike and Redis.
- 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.
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance
COMPENSATION RANGE
The compensation range for this role is $200,000.00 - $250,000.00, depending on location and experience.
PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
We're committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work.
