Lead Software Engineer
- Level
- Lead
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 3 November 2026.
About the role
Lead Software Engineer
Position Description:
As a Lead Software Engineer you will join provide technical leadership to the group responsible for architecting, developing, and owning the Zeta Marketing Platform. You will collaborate with Engineers, Product Managers and Executives across the organization 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.
This position will be responsible for overseeing the design and development of The Zeta Marketing Platform, working on technology that enables access to core of CRM and Data Cloud efforts. You will mentor an organization of developers through your knowledge sharing sessions that will guide and strengthen their knowledge.
You should have a deep knowledge of distributed systems and cloud architecture. You will need extensive design and development experience and passion about working with large amounts of data.
Your Impact:
- Architect our big data ZMP platform
- Dexterously own balancing of production features Support, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
- Excited by building reliable, self-healing services with robust error handling
- Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across hundreds of compute nodes in multiple data centers
- Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of end-to-end functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops
Required Skills/Experience:
- 10+ years of software development experience
- At least 3-5 years of experience as a hands-on Lead engineer/technical architect
- Strong programming skills (preferably in Python) with specific focus on parallel and multithreaded programming
- Experience with multi-tenant architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Experience with building distributed systems
- Experience building RESTful web-services, Microservices
- Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission critical service
- Experience with Agile development methodology and Test-Driven Development
- Experience building real-time streaming data pipelines that scale horizontally
- Knowledge of Big Data technologies (e.g. HBase, Spark, Elasticsearch)
- Knowledge of technologies used in building real time data pipelines and streaming applications (e.g. Kafka, Amazon Kinesis)
- Familiar with NoSQL databases such as Aerospike, data warehouses such as Snowflake/ ClickHouse/Redshift
Desired Skills/Experience
- Experience with AWS, OpenStack or Azure for scaling web and mobile application backend infrastructure
- Knowledge of open-source distributed automation frameworks (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Rundeck, STAF/STAX, Chef, Puppet)
Company Summary
Zeta Global is a data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.
Zeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company that enables enterprise brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers through intelligent, data-driven engagement. At the center of its innovation is the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), which unifies customer data, identity, and advanced analytics to transform billions of data signals into actionable marketing intelligence and measurable business outcomes.
Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZETA), Zeta is redefining modern marketing with Athena by Zeta™, a superintelligent, conversational agent embedded in ZMP that personalizes the marketer’s workspace, surfaces platform generated insights through natural dialogue and recommends next-best actions to help brands accelerate and optimize their marketing outcomes.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Agile · Azure · ClickHouse · Data Warehousing · Docker · Elasticsearch · Kinesis · Puppet
Rare in Zeta Global's other 62 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Compared with Zeta Global's other open jobs.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 42 open in Engineering. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
AWS (36 of 42), Python (31 of 42), Java (29 of 42), Kubernetes (21 of 42), CI/CD (20 of 42), Kafka (17 of 42), Scala (17 of 42)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Data Engineer posted Oct 28
- Application Platform Architect posted Oct 27
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 5
- Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 1
- Senior Engineer, Data Platform posted Sep 28
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform posted Sep 24
- QA Engineer posted Sep 18
- Staff Software Engineer posted Sep 15
- Senior Software Engineer – Forecasting & Recommendations posted Sep 15
- Senior Software Engineer, Identity posted Sep 14
- Senior Software Engineer, Identity posted Sep 14
- Senior Software Engineer - Automation & Tooling posted Sep 7
- Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events posted Aug 26
- Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events posted Aug 26
- Director, Application Security posted Aug 26
- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Advisor posted Aug 11
- Staff Software Engineer - Performance Advisor posted Aug 11
- Senior Compute Platform Engineer posted Jul 20
- Lead Application Security Engineer posted Jul 15
- Lead Site Reliability Engineer posted Jul 15
- Lead Application Security Engineer posted Jul 13
- Director of Engineering posted May 11
- Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications posted Apr 27
- Lead Data Engineer - Healthcare Data & Audience Applications posted Apr 27
- Lead Backend Engineer posted Apr 24
- Senior Backend Engineer posted Apr 24
- Lead Full Stack Engineer posted Apr 13
- Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad Serving posted Apr 8
- Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad Serving posted Apr 8
- Senior Software Engineer — Real-Time Ad Serving posted Apr 8
- Lead Full Stack Engineer, Vertical Applications posted Dec 9
- Lead Software Engineer posted Nov 4
- Lead Software Engineer, Identity posted Oct 22
- Lead Software Engineer, Identity posted Oct 22
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 15
- Sr. Systems Administrator posted Jul 25
- Sr. Systems Engineer posted Jul 25
- Director, Application Security posted May 15
- Senior Software Engineer posted Apr 30
- Senior QA Automation Engineer posted Oct 17
- Senior Backend Engineer posted Mar 27
From the team and dates on Zeta Global's own job board.
Salary context
30 other open postings titled Lead Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 176,340 to USD 223,750 a year.
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