Zeta Global
Senior Compute Platform Engineer
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About Zeta Global
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently.
Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs.
Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.
The Role: Senior Compute Platform Engineer
As a Senior Compute Platform Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be part of the group responsible for building and running the data infrastructure that powers Zeta's platform, including Zeta’s lakehouse platform.
The Data Platform team delivers reliable, cost-efficient data processing that scales with growth, so engineers and analysts can focus on business problems instead of wrestling with infrastructure. The team empowers data scientists and data engineers through:
- A Scala data warehouse framework designed for data modeling and the creation of type-safe and easily testable batch jobs.
- Orchestration of a compute environment that simplifies the execution of Spark jobs, facilitating the analysis of terabytes of data with ease and cost-effectiveness.
- A runtime environment based on Hadoop clusters on EC2 spot instances, dynamically scaling up as required to ensure high resource utilization and stability.
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Collaboration with other branches in San Francisco and Berlin drives innovation, while mentoring, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing help elevate team expertise to work effectively with the stack.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
- Operating and implementing new features in the framework and managed services.
- Engaging with data scientists to identify ways to improve experience and productivity using frameworks and services.
- Designing and implementing computational improvements.
- Submitting patches to open-source projects in our stack such as Spark, Iceberg, Hadoop, and Airflow.
- Acting as an expert on Spark and Scala.
- Mentoring engineers through:
- Pair programming
- Design discussions
- Knowledge-sharing sessions
- Setting and maintaining high standards for quality, reliability, and best practices across the team.
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience.
- A degree in:
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
- Physics
- Math
- or a related field
Desired
- 2+ years of experience in Scala or other JVM-based languages.
- Experience with:
- Spark or other large-scale data-processing frameworks.
- Kubernetes (a plus).
- Basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services (e.g., EC2, S3, Athena).
- Interest in back-end technologies, architecture, and learning new technologies.
- Interest in math, statistics, or adtech technology (a plus).
- Analytical approach to problem-solving with a pragmatic mindset.
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to discuss ideas in a cohesive, constructive manner.
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Salary Range
The salary range for this role is £100,000 - £112,000, depending on location and experience.
People & Culture at Zeta
Zeta considers all applicants without discrimination on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or national/ethnic origin, or any other protected characteristics, including sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression.
Our culture thrives on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We foster an environment of trust and belonging, encouraging every employee to bring their unique selves to work. We provide opportunities for employees to celebrate, support, and advocate for one another.
Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at Zeta’s website.
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