Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud company that unifies identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation. The Senior Software Engineer, Identity will design and build backend services for identity resolution, optimize high-volume event-driven pipelines, operate cloud-native services, and help ensure reliability, observability, and scalability while mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and platform integrations
• Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals
• Deploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes using Helm
• Ensure absolute reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions and mentor junior engineers

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in API design and distributed systems
• Experience with Kafka, streaming frameworks (Spark/Hive/Flink), and schedulers (Airflow/Luigi)
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud deployment practices
• Knowledge of SQL, complex data modeling, and high-throughput NoSQL/columnar databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, Scylla, etc.)
• Experience designing multi-tenant distributed systems or real-time streaming frameworks (Flink/Storm)
• Knowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake) and security/privacy frameworks