Lead Identity Platform Engineer

Zeta Global; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; 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

A leading AI marketing firm in San Francisco seeks a Lead Software Engineer. You will design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, develop event-driven pipelines, and deploy cloud-native services on Kubernetes. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in backend engineering, strong skills in Python or Java, and a passion for mentoring teams. This role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits including unlimited PTO, medical and dental coverage, and employee equity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at scale.
• Strong skills in Python, Java, or Scala with expertise in APIs and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Spark/Hive/Flink, and workflow schedulers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution.
• Develop and optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals.
• Deploy cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

Kafka

Spark/Hive/Flink

Kubernetes

SQL

Data Modelling

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS preferred)

Airflow

Helm

Job description

A leading AI marketing firm in San Francisco seeks a Lead Software Engineer. You will design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, develop event-driven pipelines, and deploy cloud-native services on Kubernetes. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in backend engineering, strong skills in Python or Java, and a passion for mentoring teams. This role offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits including unlimited PTO, medical and dental coverage, and employee equity.