Ads Platform Architect
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Job Location:
Atlanta, GA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 300000 - 400000
Posted on:
08-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 industrys 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 .
Role Description
As an AdTech (DSP) Architect at Zeta Global you will be a key leader in designing building and scaling our Demand-Side Platform (DSP) architecture. You will be responsible for creating a technical vision and roadmap for high-throughput low-latency systems that handle billions of requests per day. This role requires a deep understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem distributed systems and real-time bidding (RTB). Youll work closely with engineering product and data science teams to ensure our platform is performant reliable and innovative.
Key Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of scalable high-performance and resilient AdTech solutions with a specific focus on the DSP.
- System Design: Design and evolve the architecture of our real-time bidding system targeting and optimization algorithms.
- Technical Strategy: Define the technical roadmap and vision for our AdTech stack evaluating new technologies and making build vs. buy decisions.
- AI & Agentic Workflows: Architect and implement intelligent systems using AI agents and agentic workflows to automate and optimize end-to-end marketing campaigns including audience segmentation creative generation and real-time bid adjustments.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Performance & Reliability: Ensure system robustness observability and stability in a high-concurrency low-latency environment.
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in software engineering with at least 3-5 years in a lead architect or principal engineer role specifically within the AdTech or MarTech space.
- Extensive experience designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in the programmatic advertising ecosystem including Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs) Real-Time Bidding (RTB) Supply-Side Platforms (SSPs) and Ad Exchanges.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java Scala or Python.
- Strong experience with big data technologies and frameworks (Spark Kafka Hadoop HDFS).
- Expertise with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and related services.
- Experience with various data stores including both SQL and NoSQL databases (Cassandra DynamoDB ScyllaDB Redis).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes).
- Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI applied to advertising such as for ad copy generation creative optimization or personalized messaging.
- Experience designing and implementing agentic workflows that enable autonomous decision-making and optimization in a real-time environment.
- Experience with machine learning or AI model serving for real-time applications.
- Experience with open table formats like Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi.
- Familiarity with microservices architecture and event-driven design patterns.
- A track record of contributing to open-source projects or speaking at industry conferences.
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 $300000 - $400000 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 individuals 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.
Were 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: IN THE NEWS!
Key Skills
- APIs
- Pegasystems
- Spring
- SOAP
- .NET
- Hybris
- Solution Architecture
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Adobe Experience Manager
- J2EE
- Java
- Oracle
About Company
Zeta Global empowers businesses with cutting-edge data-driven marketing solutions. Harness the potential of AI-driven insights and customer engagement.
