Staff Software Engineer

at  Zeta Global

WHO WE ARE

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the Data-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.

REQUIREMENTS:

• We are looking for exceptional talent with superior academic credentials and a solid foundation in computer sciences and distributed systems design and development.
• The candidate will have had at least 8 years of experience developing scalable, robust software platforms using Java/Ruby/Python or an equivalent language.
• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science (or a related field) from a university where the primary language of instruction is English is strongly desired.
• Strong communication skills in a large-distributed development team environment are essential.

QUALIFICATION

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of working experience with Python, Ruby and/or J2EE technology or equivalent OO paradigm
• Strong knowledge and experience with Kafka, Elastic Search, NoSQL databases such as Aerospike, Thrift, CI, and AWS.
• Experience working in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Experience working on data/ETL pipeline.
• Strong object-oriented programming and design skills.
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Ability and desire to learn new skills and take on new tasks.

Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) is a machine learning/AI powered customer acquisition and CRM multi-tenant platform. The Sr backend developer will work on server-side APIs and services that enable a highly distributed event pipeline and a stack that gets tens of thousands of messages per second.
As a senior member of the Software Engineering team, you will join the group responsible for designing, developing, and owning the distributed systems CRM platform for Zeta. You will collaborate with your fellow Engineers and Product Managers to develop a roadmap and subsequent projects to build the next generation comprehensive, multichannel marketing solution that unifies and unlocks data across digital touch points, driving return on marketing investment.
You should have a deep knowledge of distributed systems and cloud architecture. You will need extensive design and development experience and be passionate about working with high-throughput systems where the issues of throughput, performance, redundancy, and concurrency are paramount.