Senior Platform Engineering Leader

Zeta Global; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 225,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Employee Equity

Job summary

Zeta Global seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a critical area of the Zeta Marketing Platform, owning architecture, roadmap, and delivery for core platform domains. You will remain hands-on in architecture, design reviews, and production operations while growing engineers and technical leads, delivering scalable platform capabilities.

The role requires strong technical judgment, exceptional leadership, and the ability to drive complex initiatives across multiple teams, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed platforms or multi-tenant SaaS systems.
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for platform, backend, or infrastructure services.
• Strong operational knowledge of observability, incident management, and production readiness.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and technical direction for assigned platform domains.
• Translate platform strategy into executable engineering roadmaps.
• Drive design for shared services, APIs, schemas, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Review designs and ensure alignment with platform architecture and engineering standards.
• Identify scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability risks.
• Champion reusable solutions and eliminate unnecessary duplication across product teams.
• Guide migrations, versioning, and adoption of platform capabilities.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud-native architectures

Team leadership

Observability

Production readiness

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Snowflake

ClickHouse

Iceberg

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Zeta Global seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a critical area of the Zeta Marketing Platform, owning architecture, roadmap, and delivery for core platform domains. You will remain hands-on in architecture, design reviews, and production operations while growing engineers and technical leads, delivering scalable platform capabilities.

The role requires strong technical judgment, exceptional leadership, and the ability to drive complex initiatives across multiple teams, with a focus on