Lead Software Engineer – Big Data
Zeta Global.com
Office
Bangalore, IN
Full Time
Lead Software Engineer – Big Data
- We are looking for lead or principal software engineers to join our Data Cloud team. Our Data Cloud team is
- responsible for the Zeta Identity Graph platform, which captures billions of behavioural, demographic,
- environmental, and transactional signals, for people-based marketing. As part of this team, the data engineer will be
- designing and growing our existing data infrastructure to democratize data access, enable complex data analyses,
- and automate optimization workflows for business and marketing operations.
- Job Description:
- Essential Responsibilities:
- As a Lead or Principal Data Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- • Building, refining, tuning, and maintaining our real-time and batch data infrastructure
- • Daily use technologies such as HDFS, Spark, Snowflake, Hive, HBase, Scylla, Django, FastAPI, etc.
- • Maintaining data quality and accuracy across production data systems
- • Working with Data Engineers to optimize data models and workflows
- • Working with Data Analysts to develop ETL processes for analysis and reporting
- • Working with Product Managers to design and build data products
- • Working with our DevOps team to scale and optimize our data infrastructure
- • Participate in architecture discussions, influence the road map, take ownership and responsibility over new
- projects
- • Participating in 24/7 on-call rotation (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong)
- Desired Characteristics:
- • Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience.
- • Proven long term experience and enthusiasm for distributed data processing at scale, eagerness to learn
- new things.
- • Expertise in designing and architecting distributed low latency and scalable solutions in either cloud and onpremises environment.
- • Exposure to the whole software development lifecycle from inception to production and monitoring
- • Fluency in Python or solid experience in Scala, Java
- • Proficient with relational databases and Advanced SQL
- • Expert in usage of services like Spark, HDFS, Hive, HBase
- • Experience in adequate usage of any scheduler such as Apache Airflow, Apache Luigi, Chronos etc.
- • Experience in adequate usage of cloud services (AWS) at scale
- • Experience in agile software development processes
- • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Nice to have:
- • Experience with large scale / multi-tenant distributed systems
- • Experience with columnar / NoSQL databases – Vertica, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase
- • Experience in real team streaming frameworks – Flink, Storm
- • Experience with web frameworks such as Flask, Django
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.
- Our technology runs on the Zeta Marketing Platform, which powers ‘end to end’ marketing programs for some of the
- world’s leading brands. With expertise encompassing all digital marketing channels – Email, Display, Social, Search
- and Mobile – Zeta orchestrates acquisition and engagement programs that deliver results that are scalable,
- repeatable and sustainable.
- Zeta Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race,
- gender, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical
- condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with
- arrest and conviction records.
- Zeta Global Recognized in Enterprise Marketing Software and Cross-Channel Campaign Management Reports by
- Independent Research Firm
Lead Software Engineer – Big Data
Office
Bangalore, IN
Full Time
August 24, 2025