Senior Software Engineer
At Zeta Global, the Data Connectivity POD builds data products that processes large-scale data with advanced architecture built on AWS and managed Apache Iceberg tables. It ingests hundreds of gigabytes daily, processes multi-terabyte data volumes, and supports both batch and streaming pipelines with sub-second processing speeds. This scalable, multi-tenant system ensures high data integrity and cost efficiency while enabling real-time updates and personalized customer experiences driven by advanced AI and proprietary data assets.
As part of the DCon POD team at Zeta, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the data platforms and products that manages all inbound and outbound data flows. You will design and implement scalable frameworks enabling self-service data pipeline creation, empowering both technical and non-technical users to build robust pipelines efficiently. This role involves building and optimizing services for both batch and real-time streaming data processing, ensuring data availability with minimal latency. People working on this product will gain expertise on building PetaByte-scale Data Lakes, Data Engineering and building data frameworks that operate at enterprise scale.
Senior Software Engineer – Microservices and Data Pipelines, driving enterprise-grade data services and. We are looking for hands-on, self-driven people who are ready to explore and learn different technologies and languages to get things done. People who have previous experience with writing high through put micro services, large scale datasets/databases, ETL pipelines, Data engineering, connector frameworks with strong Python, data management, and compliance-minded delivery at scale would be a good fit for this position.

Design, implement, and operate Python-based microservices and high-throughput ETL pipelines that meet enterprise SLAs, RPO/RTO targets, and data quality standards
Embed observability by default through structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing; Conduct design and code reviews, performance and cost optimizations, and challenge fellow engineers to raise the bar on engineering excellence and operational maturity
Design and evolve reusable connector frameworks for inbound and outbound integrations with Ad tech platforms like Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and other enterprise systems, emphasizing modularity, versioning, and backward compatibility
Collaborate with Product, SecOps, and Platform teams to deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions across Kubernetes, message buses, and workflow orchestrators
5+ years in backend/data engineering building Python services and ETL pipelines for enterprise environments with strict uptime, compliance, and performance requirements

Expert Python skills, including async I/O, concurrency, and service frameworks, plus strong testing strategies, and interface contracts for maintainability at scale
Proven microservices experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and event-driven patterns using message brokers or streaming platforms
Robust SQL skills integrating with analytics warehouses such as Snowflake, including cost/performance tuning patterns
Production-grade integrations with APIs, including rate-limit handling, retries, backoff policies, and change-data capture or incremental sync designs
Deep observability practice using metrics, logs, and traces and experience implementing Open Telemetry instrumentation and alerting workflows

Experience in leveraging Apache Spark for efficient processing and management of large-scale distributed data workloads
Strong understanding of modern Lakehouse architectures that unify data lakes and warehouses
Exposure to serverless data patterns (e.g., AWS Lambda/Step Functions)

Zeta Global is a NYSE listed data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. 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.
Zeta Global Recognized in Enterprise Marketing Software and Cross-Channel Campaign Management Reports by Independent Research Firm

Senior Software Engineer, Python, SQL, Aws

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