Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate high-scale batch and streaming data pipelines to ingest, transform, and enrich large-scale event data.
• Create and maintain curated data aggregates, dimensional models, and data marts for prediction models, BI dashboards, and measurement workflows.
• Define schemas, data contracts, and versioning strategies to ensure downstream system stability.
• Implement data quality and reliability measures, including validation, anomaly detection, and reconciliation to meet SLAs/SLOs.
• Optimize compute and storage performance for scale, balancing latency, throughput, and cost.
• Build repeatable workflows using orchestration tools and implement CI/CD for data workloads.
• Instrument pipelines with metrics, logs, and lineage to ensure observability and rapid root-cause analysis.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production-grade data pipelines and data products in high-scale environments.
• Strong expertise in SQL and data modeling (dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, event modeling).
• Hands-on experience with streaming systems such as Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
• Proficiency in at least one data engineering language: Python, Java, Scala, or Go.
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark or Flink.
• Experience working with AWS data services (e.g., S3, Glue, EMR, Athena, Redshift).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Step Functions.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra, or Redis).

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain knowledge in AdTech or programmatic advertising (DSP/SSP/RTB).
• Experience building measurement pipelines for attribution, incrementality, or experimentation.
• Experience supporting ML feature stores and offline/online feature generation.
• Experience with real-time analytics stores like Druid, ClickHouse, or Pinot.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy, and PII-aware data processing.

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 help marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), we unify identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases.