Application Platform Architect

The role

You will define the technical vision and roadmap for Zeta's application platform. You will design core platform services, APIs and shared components, including services that enable AI agents and agentic workflows.

What you will do

• Define the technical vision and roadmap for the Zeta application platform
• Design and lead implementation of reusable microservices, APIs and shared components
• Architect platform services and APIs that enable AI agents, large language models and agentic workflows
• Ensure the platform scales, stays highly available, performs well and tolerates faults
• Create tools, frameworks and best practices that improve developer experience
• Research and recommend emerging technologies, tools and architectural patterns
• Partner with engineering, DevOps and security teams to embed security, monitoring and operations into the platform
• Create and maintain documentation, guidelines and governance standards for the platform

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering
• At least 3-5 years in a lead architect or principal engineer role
• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale, distributed application platforms
• Deep expertise in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs and event-driven systems
• Proficiency in Java, Scala or Python
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native services
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex or similar, and a track record of architecting platforms to support them
• Experience with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways
• Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM) systems
• Experience with security architecture, including threat modeling and secure-by-design principles
• A track record of contributing to open-source projects or speaking at industry conferences

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.