# Senior Software Engineer, Identity at Zeta Global

- Company: Zeta Global
- What the company does: Zeta Global unifies identity, data and AI in one marketing cloud, so enterprise brands can acquire, grow and retain customers across every channel.
- Company website: https://www.zetaglobal.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal/jobs/6180411004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zeta-global-senior-software-engineer-identity/

## About the role

The Identity team operates the critical backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph. How do you engineer distributed architectures to manage a profile store running in several terabytes while maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies for billions of monthly events? We seek an innovative Senior Software Engineer to help navigate this exact scale, driving a multi-year roadmap to optimize our existing systems and architect our next-generation platform.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in API design and distributed systems
- Experience with Kafka, streaming frameworks (Spark/Hive/Flink), and schedulers (Airflow/Luigi)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud deployment practices
- Knowledge of SQL, complex data modeling, and high-throughput NoSQL/columnar databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, Scylla, etc.)

Tags: Engineering