Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform
Zeta Global · San Francisco, CA · $165k–$185k
The role
This role involves building and operating data infrastructure supporting products, analytics, machine learning, and AI systems. The engineer will work on Lakehouse architecture, distributed compute, data quality, governance, and security, and will collaborate with data engineers, scientists, and product teams. The position is hybrid based in San Mateo or San Francisco, CA.
- Pay
- $165k–$185k
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 7+ yrs
What we know that the posting doesn’t say
- Seen 2 days agostill listed on the employer’s careers page
- Posted 3 days agothe first time we saw it
About Zeta Global
Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud that uses AI and consumer signals to help marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. It offers a marketing platform unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation.
What you would do
- Build and operate Lakehouse, Spark, and distributed data-processing systems
- Improve performance, reliability, cost, and operational visibility of platform workloads
- Develop capabilities for data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, discoverability, security, and access control
- Build data context for trusted reporting, ML models, and AI agents
- Evaluate compute and query engines for read-heavy workloads
- Assess real-time OLAP technologies and identify production use cases
Must have
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong experience in Python, Scala, Java, or another JVM language
- Experience with Spark or another distributed data-processing framework
- Experience building or operating production data platforms, backend systems, or distributed systems
- Familiarity with at least one of Lakehouse, Iceberg, data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, query engines, or real-time OLAP
- Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Athena, and IAM
- Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, and incident response
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, Trino, ClickHouse, Starrocks, or Pinot
What you get
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee equity and stock purchase plan
- Employee discounts
- Virtual wellness classes
- Pet insurance
Experience and education
- 7+ years of relevant experience
Key skills
- python
- scala
- java
- jvm
- spark
- lakehouse
- apache iceberg
- data quality
- governance
- lineage
- metadata
- query engines
- real-time olap
- aws
- ec2
- s3
- athena
- iam
- monitoring
- alerting
- deployment automation
- incident response
- kubernetes
- terraform
WHO WE ARE Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision…
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