Lead Software Engineer

Position Description:

As a Lead Software Engineer you will join provide technical leadership to the group responsible for architecting, developing, and owning the Zeta Marketing Platform. You will collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers and Executives across the organization 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.

This position will be responsible for overseeing the design and development of The Zeta Marketing Platform, working on technology that enables access to core of CRM and Data Cloud efforts. You will mentor an organization of developers through your knowledge sharing sessions that will guide and strengthen their knowledge.

You should have a deep knowledge of distributed systems and cloud architecture. You will need extensive design and development experience and passion about working with large amounts of data.

Your Impact:

• Architect our big data ZMP platform
• Dexterously own balancing of production features Support, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Excited by building reliable, self-healing services with robust error handling
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across hundreds of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops

Required Skills/Experience:

• 10+ years of software development experience
• At least 3-5 years of experience as a hands-on Lead engineer/technical architect
• Strong programming skills (preferably in Python) with specific focus on parallel and multithreaded programming
• Experience with multi-tenant architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Experience with building distributed systems
• Experience building RESTful web-services, Microservices
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission critical service
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
• Experience building real-time streaming data pipelines that scale horizontally
• Knowledge of Big Data technologies (e.g. HBase, Spark, Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge of technologies used in building real time data pipelines and streaming applications (e.g. Kafka, Amazon Kinesis)
• Familiar with NoSQL​ ​databases​ ​such​ ​as Aerospike,​ ​data warehouses such as Snowflake/ ClickHouse/Redshift

Desired Skills/Experience

• Experience with AWS, OpenStack or Azure for scaling web and mobile application backend infrastructure
• Knowledge of open-source distributed automation frameworks (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Rundeck, STAF/STAX, Chef, Puppet)

Company Summary 

Zeta Global is a data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.

Zeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company that enables enterprise brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers through intelligent, data-driven engagement. At the center of its innovation is the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), which unifies customer data, identity, and advanced analytics to transform billions of data signals into actionable marketing intelligence and measurable business outcomes.

Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZETA), Zeta is redefining modern marketing with Athena by Zeta™, a superintelligent, conversational agent embedded in ZMP that personalizes the marketer’s workspace, surfaces platform generated insights through natural dialogue and recommends next-best actions to help brands accelerate and optimize their marketing outcomes.