Lead Software Engineer, Identity

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, leveraging Helm for repeatable deployments
• Ensure reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and data teams to deliver end-to-end identity solutions
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture and roadmap

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), Spark/Hive/Flink, and workflow schedulers (Airflow/Luigi)
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and deployment practices (Helm, service meshes)
• Solid knowledge of SQL, data modelling, and cloud platforms (AWS)
• Familiarity with columnar or NoSQL databases (e.g., Aerospike, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase)
• Strong communication skills and a track record of driving technical direction and mentoring teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale or multi-tenant distributed systems
• Exposure to real-time streaming frameworks such as Flink or Storm
• Knowledge of open table formats like Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake
• Background in security, compliance, or privacy related to identity systems

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee Equity
• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance

About the Company

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence 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 is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform.