Senior Software Engineer

Zeta Global

New York, NY · Telecommute 4 days per weekFull-time$193,461–$193,461Posted Nov 4, 2026

About the role

WHO WE ARE

Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI-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. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.

THE ROLE

Zeta Global Corp seeks a Senior Software Engineer in NYC to design, develop, deploy, and own scalable distributed systems supporting the company’s customer relationship management and multichannel marketing technology platform. Collaborate with software engineers, architects, product managers, and client-facing teams to define technical roadmaps and deliver platform capabilities that unify customer data across digital touchpoints and improve clients’ return on marketing investment.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain distributed applications, microservices, backend services, and data-processing components for the company’s marketing technology platform.

Analyze business and product requirements and translate them into scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical designs.

Develop and maintain production applications and services using programming languages and application frameworks such as Java, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, or comparable technologies.

Design, implement, document, and integrate APIs, including RESTful APIs, using technologies and frameworks such as FastAPI, Ruby on Rails, Spring, or comparable API- development frameworks.

Design, build, and optimize data-processing and extract, transform, and load pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, enrich, and distribute high-volume customer and marketing data.

Develop and maintain event-driven and asynchronous data-processing systems using Apache Kafka or comparable distributed event-streaming or messaging technologies.

Design and maintain application components that use relational and NoSQL databases.

Develop data models, queries, indexing strategies, caching mechanisms, and data-access functionality that support high-throughput and low-latency applications.

Deploy, operate, monitor, and scale applications in cloud-computing environments such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or comparable cloud platforms.

Implement and maintain application observability, centralized logging, distributed tracing, alerting, search, analytics, and production-debugging capabilities using technologies such as the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana stack, Honeycomb, or comparable platforms.

Investigate production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, identify application and system performance bottlenecks, and implement corrective and preventive improvements.

Apply AI-assisted and AI-first software-development practices to software design, code development, automated test generation, code review, technical documentation, software modernization, and incident analysis. Integrate generative-AI or large-language-model APIs into software applications where required by the product.

Implement production controls for model evaluation, output validation, application observability, failure handling, privacy, security, and guardrails for AI-generated output.

Proactively identify and address project risks, architectural limitations, product gaps, data-quality issues, and operational concerns. Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality product updates and features through technical design and code reviews as well as unit, integration and automated testing.

Research and implement cost-effective technical solutions.

Create and maintain functional and technical documentation concerning software architecture, APIs, database schemas, data pipelines, platform integrations, deployment procedures, production operations, and product features.

Review client implementations to verify that solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, optimized, and aligned with platform best practices

Option to telecommute 4 days per week.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Electrical and Computer Engineering plus 5 years of experience required in job offered or in a similar occupation

Salary: $193,461/yr.

Send resume to: S Arvelo, Zeta Global Corp., 3 Park Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10016.

BENEFITS & PERKS

Unlimited PTO

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan

Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance

And more!!

PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA

Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/

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Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable distributed applications, microservices, APIs, and data-processing systems.
  • Build and optimize high-volume data pipelines and event-driven systems for customer and marketing data.
  • Develop high-throughput, low-latency application components using relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Deploy, monitor, and scale cloud applications; improve observability, performance, and production reliability.
  • Investigate production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective improvements.
  • Apply AI-assisted development practices and integrate generative AI or LLM APIs with appropriate controls.
  • Collaborate on technical roadmaps, review code and designs, test features, and maintain technical documentation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the job offered or a similar occupation.
  • Experience with Java, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, or comparable technologies.
  • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, data pipelines, and distributed event-driven systems.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience with application observability, production debugging, and automated testing.

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employee equity and stock purchase plan
  • Employee discounts
  • Virtual wellness classes
  • Pet insurance

Skills mentioned

JavaPythonBackend DevelopmentDistributed SystemsMicroservicesREST APIsETLApache KafkaSQLAWS

About Zeta Global

At Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), we help enterprise brands and agencies Achieve the Impossible™ with superintelligent marketing. Powered by proprietary AI and trillions of real-time signals, the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) brings martech and adtech together – unifying identity, intelligence, and activation in one unified place. We enable marketers to deliver personalized experiences that drive measurable growth in the next era of marketing. At the center of this evolution is Athena by Zeta, our superintelligent conversational agent built for predictable, profitable growth. Seamlessly integrated into the ZMP, Athena helps marketers understand performance, identify opportunities, and take action in real time—surfacing insights on spend, audiences, and campaigns, recommending next best moves, and even launching and optimizing campaigns on their behalf. Behind our platform is a global team of 3,000+ employees driven by innovation, collaboration, and a shared focus on customer success. Founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, Zeta is headquartered in New York City. Learn more at www.zetaglobal.com

Software Development1,001-5,000 employeesNew York, New York

H-1B sponsorship history

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