Senior Data Engineer— AdTech Data Platform
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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 .
The Role
Werelooking for aSenior Data Engineerto design build andoperatethedata processing layerthat powers Zetas AdTech platform. This is a hands-on role focused onstreaming batch pipelines producingtrusted reusable aggregatesthat serve multiple downstream consumers includingprediction/ML features agentic workflows BI reporting and measurement.
WhatYoullDo
- Build streaming pipelines:Ingest and process high-volume event data usingKafka/Kinesis handling schema evolution event-time processing late data and deduplication.
- Createcanonicalaggregates:Produce durable well-defined rollups (campaign audience creative inventory pacing/spend conversions measurement) with consistent semantics and SLAs.
- Enable prediction & agents:Deliver feature-ready datasets and near-real-time signals to support model training/scoring retrieval and agent decision loops.
- Support BI & reporting:Publish governed datasetstoanalytics systems and warehouses for dashboards ad-hoc queries and operational reporting.
- Measurement-grade reliability:Implement reconciliation backfills audit trails and quality checks to ensure correctness for reporting and measurement.
- Optimizeperformance & cost:Tune pipeline throughput/latency storage formats partitioning and compute spend across streaming and batch workloads.
- Operational excellence & observability:Instrument pipelines with metrics/logs/traces define SLIs/SLOs and drive fast detection and root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate cross-functionally:Partner with Backend ML/DS Analytics and Platform/SRE to define contracts schemas and robust data products.
Required Qualifications
- 7 yearsbuilding and operating production-grade data pipelines.
- Strong experience withstreaming systems:Kafka (preferred)orAWS Kinesis and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with processing frameworks such asFlinkSpark (Structured Streaming)Beam or equivalent.
- ProficiencyinPython and/or Java/Scala(Go is a plus).
- Strong SQL skills and experience withdata modelingfor analytics and aggregates.
- Strong experience withAWSand cloud-native data patterns (S3 compute/orchestration services).
- Experience withdata warehouses / OLAP(e.g. Snowflake/Redshift/BigQuery) and/or real-time analytics stores ( withSQL NoSQLecosystems (e.g. Postgres/MySQL DynamoDB/Cassandra/Redis) for serving/lookup patterns.
- Experience with orchestration and CI/CD for data pipelines (Airflow/Argo/Step Functions or equivalents).
- Clear communicator and collaborator; able to explain data systems and trade-offs to mixed audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Programmatic advertising domain knowledge: event pipelines forimpressions/clicks/conversions attribution/measurement pacing/budget signals.
- Experience buildingfeature storesor ensuringonline/offline parityfor ML features.
- Lakehouse experience (Delta/Iceberg/Hudi) incremental processing and backfill strategies at scale.
- Strong data governance practices: lineage access controls PII handling privacy-by-design.
- Experienceoperatingat extreme scale (billions of events/day) andoptimizingcost/performance.
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Excellent medical dental and vision coverage
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!
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Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
About Company
Zeta Global empowers businesses with cutting-edge data-driven marketing solutions. Harness the potential of AI-driven insights and customer engagement.
