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Zeta Global

Senior Engineering Manager – Platform Engineering

Zeta Global

Senior Engineering Manager leading scalable platform infrastructure for Zeta Global’s AI-powered marketing cloud. Owning architecture, roadmaps, reliability, and engineering teams across shared Zeta Marketing Platform services.

Posted 8/11/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $225,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in leading the architecture and technical direction for large-scale distributed platforms, with a focus on building high-performing engineering teams and driving operational excellence. Proficient in translating platform strategies into executable roadmaps while ensuring alignment with engineering best practices and fostering collaboration across multiple teams.

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Distributed SystemsCloud-Native ArchitecturesAPIsObservabilityTeam Leadership

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Hard Skills
Large-Scale Distributed PlatformsMulti-Tenant SaaS SystemsProduction Services DesignIncident ManagementTechnical Mentoring
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationCross-Functional Collaboration
Tools & Technologies
AWSKubernetesKafkaSnowflakePostgreSQL
Industry Keywords
Cloud Cost OptimizationFinOpsShared Platform ServicesOperational ReadinessAPI Gateways

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKafkaKubernetesPostgresRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the architecture and technical direction for assigned platform domains
  • Translate platform strategy into executable engineering roadmaps
  • Drive technical design for shared services, APIs, schemas, and reusable platform capabilities
  • Review designs and ensure alignment with platform architecture and engineering standards
  • Identify scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability risks
  • Champion reusable solutions and eliminate unnecessary duplication across product teams
  • Guide migrations, versioning, and adoption of platform capabilities
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of platform engineers and technical leads
  • Coach and develop engineers through mentoring, technical guidance, and regular feedback
  • Establish ownership, accountability, and engineering best practices within the team
  • Foster operational excellence, engineering quality, and continuous improvement
  • Balance new platform investments with operational responsibilities and technical debt
  • Work with other engineering teams to champion platform domains and drive service adoption
  • Deliver platform capabilities that simplify and accelerate product development
  • Partner with product engineering teams to understand platform requirements and improve developer experience
  • Build self-service capabilities that reduce friction and increase platform adoption
  • Measure platform success through adoption, reliability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency
  • Partner with Product Engineering, Data Platform, Architecture, SRE, DevOps, Security, and FinOps teams
  • Coordinate initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
  • Resolve technical dependencies and implementation challenges
  • Drive alignment around platform standards and engineering best practices
  • Communicate technical trade-offs, priorities, and delivery risks
  • Ensure shared platform services meet availability, latency, scalability, and recovery objectives
  • Embed observability, monitoring, capacity planning, and operational readiness into platform design
  • Improve tenant isolation, workload fairness, and platform resiliency
  • Partner with Security teams to build secure-by-default platform capabilities
  • Drive improvements in operational efficiency, reliability, and cloud cost optimization

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed platforms or multi-tenant SaaS systems
  • Experience leading engineering teams responsible for platform, backend, or infrastructure services
  • Strong technical expertise in distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, and shared platform services
  • Experience designing and operating highly available production services
  • Experience partnering with multiple engineering teams to deliver shared capabilities
  • Strong operational knowledge of observability, incident management, and production readiness
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and grow technical leaders
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Preferred: Experience building marketing technology, customer-data, analytics, or large-scale SaaS platforms
  • Preferred: Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar technologies
  • Preferred: Experience implementing identity, authorization, multi-tenancy, API gateways, or workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal
  • Preferred: Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
  • Preferred: Experience driving adoption of shared engineering platforms

Benefits

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