Lead AI-Driven Backend Architect for Forecasting

Zeta Global; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Zeta Global seeks a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for Forecasting and Recommendations platforms, focusing on production-grade AI and agentic systems. You will design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems powering forecasting, recommendations, and AI-driven decisioning at scale.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and architectural excellence across backend services, data pipelines, and model inference, with

Qualifications

• Requires a strong foundation in software engineering and production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, AWS, and large-scale deployments.
• Proven ability to lead, design, and ship major services with reliability and observability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Forecasting and Recommendations platforms.
• Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Own services end-to-end from design through on-call and incident resolution.

Skills

Python

Java

Go

Scala

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

LLMs / AI workflows

Observability

Performance tuning

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

GitHub

Terraform

LangChain

Job description

Zeta Global seeks a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for Forecasting and Recommendations platforms, focusing on production-grade AI and agentic systems. You will design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems powering forecasting, recommendations, and AI-driven decisioning at scale.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and architectural excellence across backend services, data pipelines, and model inference, with