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Lead Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

                                                                 Lead Software Engineer – Backend

We’re seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join one of our Data Layer teams. As the name implies, the Data Layer is at the core of all things data at Zeta. Our responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining the Zeta Identity Graph platform, which collects billions of behavioural, demographic, environmental, and transactional signals to power people-based marketing.

• Ingesting vast amounts of identity and event data from our customers and partners.

• Facilitating data transfers across systems.

• Ensuring the integrity and health of our datasets.

• And much more. As a member of this team, the data engineer will be responsible for designing and expanding our existing data infrastructure, enabling easy access to data, supporting complex data analyses, and automating optimization workflows for business and marketing operations. Essential Responsibilities: As a Lead Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Building, refining, tuning, and maintaining our real-time and batch data infrastructure • Daily use technologies such as Python, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Hive, Scylla, Django, FastAPI, etc. 

• Maintaining data quality and accuracy across production data systems

• Working with Data Engineers to optimize data models and workflows

• Working with Data Analysts to develop ETL processes for analysis and reporting

• Working with Product Managers to design and build data products

• Working with our DevOps team to scale and optimize our data infrastructure

• Participate in architecture discussions, influence the road map, take ownership and responsibility over new projects

• Participating in on-call rotation in their respective time zones (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong) Desired Characteristics:

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.

• Proven long term experience and enthusiasm for distributed data processing at scale, eagerness to learn new things.

• Expertise in designing and architecting distributed low latency and scalable solutions in either cloud and onpremises environment.

• Exposure to the whole software development lifecycle from inception to production and monitoring

• Fluency in Python or solid experience in Scala, Java

• Proficient with relational databases and Advanced SQL

• Expert in usage of services like Spark and Hive

• Experience with web frameworks such as Flask, Djang 

• Experience in adequate usage of any scheduler such as Apache Airflow, Apache Luigi, Chronos etc.

• Experience in adequate usage of cloud services (AWS) at scale

• Experience in agile software development processes

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Nice to have:

• Experience with large scale / multi-tenant distributed systems

• Experience with columnar / NoSQL databases – Vertica, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase

• Experience in real team streaming frameworks – Flink, Storm

• Experience in open table formats such as Iceberg, Hudi or Deltalake

Company Summary 

Zeta Global is a data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.

Our technology runs on the Zeta Marketing Platform, which powers ‘end to end’ marketing programs for some of the world’s leading brands. With expertise encompassing all digital marketing channels – Email, Display, Social, Search and Mobile – Zeta orchestrates acquisition and engagement programs that deliver results that are scalable, repeatable and sustainable.

Zeta Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Zeta Global Recognized in Enterprise Marketing Software and Cross-Channel Campaign Management Reports by Independent Research Firm

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zeta-global-opens-ai--data-labs-in-san-francisco-and-nyc300945353.html

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