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Senior Engineering Manager – Platform Engineering
Zeta GlobalSenior 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.
Core Competencies
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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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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