Senior Engineer, Data Platform

The role

You will build and operate the data infrastructure behind Zeta's products, analytics, machine learning and AI systems. The role covers the Lakehouse, distributed compute, data quality, governance, security and platform operations, and you will work with data scientists, data engineers and product teams.

What you will do

• Build and operate Lakehouse, Spark and distributed data-processing systems.
• Improve performance, reliability, cost and operational visibility of platform workloads.
• Develop capabilities for data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, discoverability, security and access control.
• Build the data context needed for trusted reporting, ML models and AI agents.
• Evaluate compute and query engines for read-heavy workloads on cost, performance, reliability and operational fit.
• Assess real-time OLAP technologies and identify production use cases.
• Improve deployment, observability, incident response, developer tooling and platform operations.
• Partner with data scientists and data engineers to improve their platform experience.
• Contribute fixes and improvements to open-source projects such as Spark, Iceberg and Airflow.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, design discussions and knowledge-sharing.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in Python, Scala, Java or another JVM language.
• Experience with Spark or another distributed data-processing framework.
• Experience building or operating production data platforms, backend systems or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with at least 1 of: Lakehouse architecture, Apache Iceberg, data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, query engines or real-time OLAP.
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Athena and IAM.
• Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, alerting, deployment automation and incident response.
• Strong analytical, communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, Trino, ClickHouse, Starrocks or Pinot.

About the company

Zeta Global is a publicly traded (NYSE: ZETA) AI-powered marketing technology company founded in 2007. It helps enterprise brands acquire, grow and retain customers through its Zeta Marketing Platform.