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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: Where Impossible Becomes Possible\nThe Identity team operates the critical backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph. How do you engineer distributed architectures to manage a profile store running in several terabytes while maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies for billions of monthly events? We seek an innovative Senior Software Engineer to help navigate this exact scale, driving a multi-year roadmap to optimize our existing systems and architect our next-generation platform.\nYou Will:\nDesign and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and platform integrations.\nOptimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals.\nDeploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes using Helm.\nEnsure absolute reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines.\nCollaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions and mentor junior engineers.\nYou Have:\n5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale.\nStrong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in API design and distributed systems.\nExperience with Kafka, streaming frameworks (Spark/Hive/Flink), and schedulers (Airflow/Luigi).\nProficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud deployment practices.\nKnowledge of SQL, complex data modeling, and high-throughput NoSQL/columnar databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, Scylla, etc.).\nBonus Skills:\nExperience designing multi-tenant distributed systems or real-time streaming frameworks (Flink/Storm).\nKnowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake) and security/privacy frameworks.\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 - $180,000, 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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