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Zeta Global

Lead Software Engineer, Identity

Zeta Global

Lead Software Engineer designing APIs and event-driven services for Zeta Global's identity platform. Focused on backend systems and data engineering for optimal performance and scalability.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsHBaseJavaKafkaKubernetesNoSQLPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

What you’ll need
  • 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

Comp & perks
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employee Equity
  • Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaScalaAPIsdistributed systemsevent-driven designKafkaSparkSQLdata modeling
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringtechnical direction