Director of Engineering

The role

You will own the Third-Party Audiences product from an engineering and architecture standpoint and lead a team of about 10 engineers. You will also work with product and business teams on the product and long-range roadmap.

What you will do

• Lead the Prospect Audiences team of about 10 engineers.
• Guide the team to deliver roadmap work items on time and at high quality.
• Collaborate with product and business teams on the long-range roadmap.
• Collaborate with DevEx and AI Enablement teams on adopting AI-native software development.
• Partner with architects on data ingestion and processing architecture.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop top talent.
• Own systems end to end, including production deployments, monitoring, SLOs, and on-call support.
• Monitor and optimize the cost of owned systems.
• Own data pipeline quality, observability, and contracts between data producers and consumers.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time leading large-scale data systems and teams.
• Deep domain expertise in batch and real-time data processing systems.
• Understanding of data engineering design patterns such as Data Lakehouse, Zero-Copy Data Sharing, and Cleanroom.
• Experience with data technologies such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Experience with table formats such as Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta.
• Experience with EMR, Airflow, or Spark.
• Experience with Aerospike, Scylla, or DynamoDB.
• Strong understanding of cloud data architectures (AWS, Snowflake, etc.).
• Track record of innovation and driving measurable outcomes, including AI-driven or data-driven product capabilities.
• Exceptional communication skills.

About the company

Zeta Global is an AI-Powered Marketing Cloud headquartered in New York City, founded in 2007. The company says it uses AI and consumer signals to help marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers.