Lead Software Engineer, Identity

Zeta Global

full-time

Posted on: 10/22/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year

Senior

AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsHBaseJavaKafkaKubernetesNoSQLPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

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

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 / NoSQL databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase).
Strong communication skills and a track record of driving technical direction and mentoring teams.

Benefits

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PythonJavaScalaAPIsdistributed systemsevent-driven designKafkaSparkSQLdata modeling

communicationmentoringtechnical direction