Senior Software Engineer, Identity

The Opportunity: Where Impossible Becomes Possible

The Identity team operates the critical backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph. How do you engineer distributed architectures to manage a profile store running in several terabytes while maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies for billions of monthly events? We seek an innovative Senior Software Engineer to help navigate this exact scale, driving a multi-year roadmap to optimize our existing systems and architect our next-generation platform.

You Will:

• Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and platform integrations.
• Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals.
• Deploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes using Helm.
• Ensure absolute reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions and mentor junior engineers.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in API design and distributed systems.
• Experience with Kafka, streaming frameworks (Spark/Hive/Flink), and schedulers (Airflow/Luigi).
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud deployment practices.
• Knowledge of SQL, complex data modeling, and high-throughput NoSQL/columnar databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, Scylla, etc.).

Bonus Skills:

• Experience designing multi-tenant distributed systems or real-time streaming frameworks (Flink/Storm).
• Knowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake) and security/privacy frameworks.

BENEFITS & PERKS:

• Unlimited PTO
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee Equity
• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

SALARY RANGE:

The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000, depending on location and experience.

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/