Data Automation Engineer

Zeta Global; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

Employee Equity

Employee Discounts

Virtual Wellness Classes

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Zeta Global is seeking a proactive automation builder to enhance workflows and operational efficiency. This role requires identifying automation opportunities, designing end-to-end solutions, and integrating with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in creating automations that save time and reduce costs while leveraging AI where beneficial. Competitive salary and generous benefits including unlimited PTO await.

Qualifications

• Experience building automations across AWS, Azure, or Snowflake.
• Experience scheduling jobs with serverless functions or event-driven workflows.
• Examples of automations that improved reliability or reduced costs.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities with stakeholders.
• Design and build end-to-end automation solutions.
• Integrate with APIs, data pipelines, and internal services.

Skills

Experience building automations across cloud platforms

Experience scheduling and orchestrating jobs

Proven examples of automations that reduced costs

Familiarity with AI-assisted automation

Comfortable working end-to-end

Job description

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

We’re a lean crew of business-savvy technologists who prototype first and perfect later. Our charter is to uncover opportunity, launch Version 0.1 in days, measure real-world impact, then iterate without ego. We mix cutting-edge tools with brilliantly low-tech hacks—whatever accelerates the outcome.

Automation is core to how we work. We’re looking for a builder who can spot repeatable pain, choose the right tools, wire systems together, and deliver automations that actually get used and create measurable value.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities: Partner with stakeholders to understand workflows, gather requirements, and continuously prioritize automation work based on impact (time saved, cost reduced, reliability improved).
• Design end-to-end automation: Select the right tools and patterns—serverless jobs, schedulers, cloud‑native services, scripts, or AI-assisted workflows—and build solutions from first trigger to final outcome.
• Build across the modern data stack: Create and maintain automations spanning AWS, Azure, and Snowflake, integrating with APIs, data pipelines, and internal services.
• Leverage AI where it makes sense: Build automations both with and without AI integrations—using AI to accelerate classification, enrichment, validation, or decision‑making when it delivers clear benefits.
• Drive measurable outcomes: Ensure every automation delivers value: track usage, validate impact, tune performance, and iterate or retire workflows based on real results.
• Hunt for efficiencies: Proactively spot manual steps, brittle processes, or expensive workflows and replace them with faster, cheaper, more reliable automation.
• Raise the bar for everyone: Document patterns, share reusable components, and help teams think more systematically about automation, creating systems instead of one‑off scripts.

WHY ZETA'S DATA CLOUD ACCELERATION TEAM

• Velocity. Your GenAI ideas hit users in weeks.
• Stack freedom. No six‑month procurement hurdles—pick the vendor or OSS model that fits.
• Breadth. Projects range from ad‑tech optimization to identity resolution to creative signal mining.
• Growth loop. Every win feeds back into a playbook you own and evolve.
• Distributed culture. Work where you’re most effective—sync live when it matters, async when it doesn’t.

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience building automations across cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and modern data platforms like Snowflake.
• Experience scheduling and orchestrating jobs (e.g., serverless functions, Airflow‑like tools, cron‑based systems, event‑driven workflows).
• Proven examples of automations that reduced cost, saved time, improved reliability, or unlocked new capabilities.
• Experience integrating APIs, internal services, and third‑party tools.Familiarity with AI‑assisted automation (LLMs, classification, extraction, decision support), with a pragmatic approach to when not to use AI.
• Comfortable working end‑to‑end: requirements—design—build—deploy—measure.

You’ll thrive here if you…

• Think pragmatically. You default to the simplest solution that works and scales.
• Prototype quickly. You’re rather ship a working automation this week than debate frameworks for a month.
• Care about outcomes. An automation that isn’t used or doesn’t deliver value isn’t “done.”
• Translate easily. You can talk ROI with stakeholders and implementation details with engineers.
• Love the blank canvas. Ambiguity is fuel, not friction.
• Can cut through complex problems.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Unlimited PTO
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee Equity
• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is $110,000 - $125,000 depending on location and experience.

PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA

Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/