Senior Engineer, Data Platform
Zeta Global17 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate Lakehouse, Spark, and distributed data-processing systems.
- Improve platform workload performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational visibility.
- Develop data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, discoverability, security, and access-control capabilities.
- Build trusted data foundations for reporting, machine learning models, and AI agents.
- Evaluate compute, query, and real-time OLAP engines for production use.
- Improve deployment, observability, incident response, developer tooling, and platform operations.
- Partner with data scientists and data engineers to improve their platform experience.
- Contribute fixes and improvements to open-source projects including Spark, Iceberg, and Airflow.
- Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong experience with 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 Lakehouse architecture, Apache Iceberg, data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, query engines, or real-time OLAP.
- Working knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, Athena, and IAM.
- Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, and incident response.
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, Trino, ClickHouse, Starrocks, or Pinot is a plus.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.