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/
ZETA IN THE NEWS!
https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Five years of experience in the job offered or a similar occupation
What the Team is Saying
Zeta Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
How does Zeta Global ensure its pay and bonus plans are competitive?
Zeta Global supports competitive compensation through a mix of base pay, equity, performance incentives, financial benefits and employee feedback-informed rewards. The company’s total rewards approach connects compensation with ownership, financial planning and benefits that support employees’ broader well-being.
- Competitive pay and incentives: Zeta lists competitive pay, equity, performance bonuses and an employee stock purchase plan as part of its compensation and total rewards offerings. Employees also describe compensation as a strength. A software engineer said Zeta offers “good compensation,” “best appraisals and pay raise” and a “supportive work environment,” while a director cited “compensation” as one of the strengths of the company.
- Equity and ownership: Zeta offers company equity and an employee stock purchase plan, giving employees ways to participate in the company’s growth. Its broader financial benefits also include a 401(k) with company match, monthly financial workshops, commuter benefits and insurance coverage, reinforcing compensation as part of a larger financial wellness package.
- Performance-oriented rewards: Employee reviews describe Zeta’s compensation as tied to performance and growth. One employee said, “Zeta pays well,” while another said compensation is “within industry range and revised every year.” A finance analyst cited “great incentives,” and a director described Zeta as a place to “shape your career” with room to move up. (Comparably; Glassdoor reviews; Indeed reviews)
- Benefits that strengthen total rewards: Zeta’s rewards package extends beyond pay through health, dental and vision insurance, mental health benefits, pet insurance, flexible time off, parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility and family-building support, travel assistance for reproductive health procedures, volunteer days and wellness resources. The company also says it uses wellness surveys and employee feedback to shape benefits updates, including expanded parental leave and adoption assistance.
- External signals:
- Compensation sentiment: Employees on external review sites describe Zeta’s compensation as “good,” “great” and competitive, with reviews citing pay raises, incentives, benefits and performance-based earning potential. (Glassdoor reviews; Indeed reviews; Comparably)
- Benefits signals: External profile data lists company equity, performance bonuses, an employee stock purchase plan and a home-office stipend for remote employees.
- Financial wellness: Zeta’s benefits include 401(k) matching, financial workshops, insurance coverage and employee stock purchase participation.
Bottom line: Zeta Global’s compensation approach combines competitive pay, performance incentives, equity, stock purchase access and broad benefits, giving employees both near-term rewards and longer-term financial participation in the company’s growth.
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What We Do
Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA) is the AI 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.
Why Work With Us
At Zeta, people have the freedom to think creatively, take initiative, and grow. We value curiosity, innovation, and teamwork, empowering everyone to use AI and technology in smarter ways to drive impact for clients, consumers, and each other while shaping the future together.
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