Lead Software Engineer, Identity
Zeta Global5 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and integrations.
- Develop and optimize event-driven pipelines and workflows processing billions of signals.
- Deploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes using Helm for repeatable deployments.
- Ensure reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver end-to-end identity solutions.
- Mentor engineers and influence architecture and roadmap decisions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at scale.
- Strong skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven design.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar technologies, Spark, Hive, or Flink, and workflow schedulers such as Airflow or Luigi.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, preferably EKS, plus Helm and service-mesh deployment practices.
- Solid knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Familiarity with columnar or NoSQL databases including Aerospike, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, or Couchbase.
- Strong communication skills and experience driving technical direction and mentoring teams.
- Experience with large-scale or multi-tenant distributed systems is a bonus.
- Exposure to real-time streaming frameworks such as Flink or Storm is a bonus.
- Knowledge of open table formats including Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake is a bonus.
- Background in security, compliance, or privacy related to identity systems is a bonus.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee equity
- Employee discounts
- Virtual wellness classes
- Pet insurance
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache FlinkApache HBaseApache HiveApache KafkaApache SparkApache StormAWSCouchbaseHelmJavaKubernetesPythonScalaSnowflakeSQL
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.