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Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform - powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. 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. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.\nThe Opportunity\nAt Zeta Global, identity is at the core of our marketing cloud. 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. These services enable people-based marketing at scale, ensure trust and transparency in how identity data is managed, and provide critical APIs and event streams consumed across Zeta’s platform. Our systems support more than 235 million consumer profiles and process billions of events monthly, requiring services that are highly available, low-latency, and built to scale\nWe are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who brings strength in both backend distributed systems and data engineering. 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.\nYou Will:\nDesign and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and integrations.\nDevelop and optimize event-driven pipelines and workflows processing billions of signals.\nDeploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes, leveraging Helm for repeatable deployments.\nEnsure reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines.\nCollaborate across engineering, product, and data teams to deliver end-to-end identity solutions.\nMentor engineers andinfluence architecture and roadmap\nYou Have:\n5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at scale.\nStrong skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven design.\nHands-on experience with Kafka (or similar),Spark/Hive/Flink , and workflow schedulers (Airflow/Luigi).\nProficiency with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and deployment practices (Helm, service meshes).\nSolid knowledge of SQL, data modelling , and cloud platforms (AWS).\nFamiliarity with columnar / NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase).\nStrong communication skills and a track record of driving technical direction and mentoring teams.\nBonus Skills:\nExperience with large-scale or multi-tenant distributed systems.\nExposure to real-time streaming frameworks (Flink, Storm).\nKnowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake).\nBackground in security, compliance, or privacy related to identity systems.\nBENEFITS & PERKS\nUnlimited PTO\nExcellent medical, dental, and vision coverage\nEmployee Equity\nEmployee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!\nSALARY RANGE\nThe salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000, depending on location and experience. \nPEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA\nZeta 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. \nWe’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. 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