Senior Backend Engineer, Identity Graph at Scale

Zeta-Global; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Employee Equity

Employee Discounts

Virtual Wellness Classes

Pet Insurance

Job summary

Zeta Global, NYSE: ZETA, is the AI-powered marketing cloud. The Identity team builds backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph, handling terabytes of data with sub-second latencies at scale.

We seek a Senior Software Engineer to design APIs, optimize data pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and Airflow, and deploy cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes with Helm, ensuring reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and platform integrations.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Python

Java

Scala

Kafka

Spark/Hive/Flink

Airflow/Luigi

Kubernetes

AWS

SQL

NoSQL/columnar

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

AWS

Kafka

Spark

Hive

Flink

Airflow

Luigi

Iceberg/Hudi/Delta Lake

Job description

Zeta Global, NYSE: ZETA, is the AI-powered marketing cloud. The Identity team builds backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph, handling terabytes of data with sub-second latencies at scale.

We seek a Senior Software Engineer to design APIs, optimize data pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and Airflow, and deploy cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes with Helm, ensuring reliability and scalability.