Application Platform Architect
Zeta Global2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision and roadmap for the application platform.
- Design and lead implementation of reusable microservices, APIs, shared libraries, and core platform services.
- Architect platform services and APIs that support AI agents, LLMs, and agentic workflows.
- Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and fault tolerance across the platform.
- Create developer tools, frameworks, and best practices that improve development velocity and consistency.
- Research and recommend technologies, tools, and architectural patterns.
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and security teams on monitoring, security, and operational practices.
- Maintain architecture documentation, guidelines, and governance standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3–5 years in a lead architect or principal engineer role.
- Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed application platforms.
- Deep expertise in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.
- Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and cloud-native services.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
- Preferred: experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar AI/ML frameworks and platforms supporting them.
- Preferred: experience with Istio, Linkerd, API gateways, IAM systems, security architecture, threat modeling, and secure-by-design principles.
- Preferred: open-source contributions or industry conference speaking experience.
About Zeta Global
Zeta Global builds an AI-powered marketing cloud that unifies customer data, analytics, and omnichannel activation for enterprise brands and agencies. Its Zeta Marketing Platform combines martech and adtech—spanning CRM, email, display, and social—to acquire, grow, and retain customers on a subscription and media-buying model. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, Zeta is a public company trading on the NYSE under the ticker ZETA.