Lead Software Engineer, Identity

Zetaglobal

Remote
$150,000 - $200,000 py
Remote
Design backend services and apis
Event-driven pipelines and workflows
Cloud-native services on eks/kubernetes
Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Identity team, focusing on backend distributed systems and data engineering. The role involves designing APIs, developing event-driven services, and ensuring system scalability and reliability. The position offers competitive benefits, including unlimited PTO and equity

Job Summary

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Zeta Global is the AI-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.

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Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Identity team, focusing on backend distributed systems and data engineering. The role involves designing APIs, developing event-driven services, and ensuring system scalability and reliability. The position offers competitive benefits, including unlimited PTO and equity.

Salary

$150,000 - $200,000

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • design backend services and APIs
  • event-driven pipelines and workflows
  • cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes
  • reliability, observability, and scalability
  • Python, Java, or Scala expertise
  • Kafka, Spark/Hive/Flink, Airflow/Luigi
  • SQL, data modelling, AWS

Nice-to-have

  • large-scale or multi-tenant systems
  • real-time streaming frameworks
  • open table formats knowledge
  • security, compliance, or privacy background

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years backend/data engineering experience
  • Kubernetes (EKS preferred) proficiency
  • columnar / NoSQL databases familiarity
  • driving technical direction and mentoring teams

Work Rights

Not specified

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