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Salary: USD 150,000 - 180,000 / annual
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is an AI-powered marketing cloud that helps enterprises acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. The company unifies identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform powered by one of the industry's largest proprietary databases and AI.
The Identity team operates critical backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph. This role focuses on engineering distributed architectures to manage a profile store running in several terabytes while maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies for billions of monthly events. You will drive a multi-year roadmap to optimize existing systems and architect next-generation platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and platform integrations
- Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals
- Deploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes using Helm
- Ensure absolute reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions and mentor junior engineers
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in API design and distributed systems
- Experience with Kafka, streaming frameworks (Spark/Hive/Flink), and schedulers (Airflow/Luigi)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud deployment practices
- Knowledge of SQL, complex data modeling, and high-throughput NoSQL/columnar databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, Scylla, etc.)
Bonus Skills:
- Experience designing multi-tenant distributed systems or real-time streaming frameworks (Flink/Storm)
- Knowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake) and security/privacy frameworks
