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You will work deeply in backend systems, APIs, event-driven services, and cloud infrastructure, while contributing to reliability, observability, and operational excellence.\nWe are looking for an engineer who can contribute immediately, has strong experience building scalable production systems, and brings sound judgment around developing reliable, maintainable, and high-performance software, including systems that integrate machine-learning and AI capabilities \nWhat You’ll Do :\nDesign, build, and operate backend services supporting forecasting, recommendations, and Performance Advisor workflows in production.\nWrite production-quality code daily; own significant services and components from design through deployment, support, and incident resolution.\nBuild low-latency, high-throughput SaaS services, including APIs, event-driven pipelines, data-processing services, and model-integration workflows.\nDevelop and maintain scalable backend components that support AI- and machine-learning-driven product capabilities.\nCollaborate with data science, platform, and product teams to integrate forecasting, recommendation, and AI decisioning capabilities into production systems.\nWork with technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, NoSQL databases, and AWS to build resilient distributed systems.\nEnsure product quality through rigorous code reviews, unit tests, debugging, and continuous improvement.\nChampion observability and reliability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and root-cause analysis.\nParticipate in production incident response, retrospectives, and systemic fixes.\nIdentify performance, scalability, and reliability risks early and contribute practical solutions.\nReduce complexity across services, infrastructure, and processes to improve stability and team velocity.\nCollaborate effectively across engineering and product teams in a large, distributed development.\nWhat We’re Looking For :\n8-12 years of professional software engineering experience building and operating scalable, robust backend systems.\nA strong track record of hands-on ownership of production services, including improvements in performance, reliability, scalability, or cost.\nStrong expertise in distributed systems design, including service boundaries, concurrency, data modeling, failure handling, and scalability tradeoffs.\nExperience developing high-throughput, event-driven systems and backend APIs.\nExperience supporting machine-learning-driven systems, forecasting, recommendations, or similar datadriven applications is strongly preferred.\nStrong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native system design and operations.\nExperience with Kafka, Elasticsearch, NoSQL databases such as Aerospike, Thrift, and modern CI/CD pipelines.\nExperience with container-based solutions and microservices architectures.\nProficiency in one or more backend languages commonly used for large-scale systems, such as Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or Scala.\nFamiliarity with modern AI-enabled applications, LLM integrations, or agentic workflows is a plus.\nStrong object-oriented programming, system design, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and communication skills.\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. \nSenior-Level Expectations\nIn this role, you are expected to:\nBe a strong, hands-on contributor who delivers high-quality software and sets a strong engineering example.\nTake ownership of significant services, components, or features from design through production operation.\nBuild a deep understanding of the systems and domains you own.\nSimplify and improve existing systems to increase team velocity, reliability, and maintainability.\nBalance technical, analytical, and product constraints to deliver practical solutions.\nMake sound technical decisions within your domain and raise architectural or operational risks early.\nMentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and collaborative problem solving.\nShip meaningful services, features, and infrastructure improvements that advance the Performance Advisor platform. \nWhy Join This Team\nBuild and operate mission-critical systems that power forecasting and recommendations at scale.\nBuild and operate mission-critical systems that power forecasting, recommendations, and Performance Advisor capabilities at scale.\nWork on high-throughput distributed systems with meaningful business impact.\nCollaborate with experienced engineers, product leaders, and AI/data teams.\nWork in an environment that values execution, pragmatism, and modern engineering workflows.\nSolve complex backend and systems problems while building skills in cloud-native and AI-powered applications.\nCompany Summary\nZeta 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.\nZeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company that enables enterprise brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers through intelligent, data-driven engagement. 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