Director of Engineering
Zeta Global
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
EngineeringDesign PatternsObservabilitySnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftDynamoDBbuildingAirflowetc.)designSparkCloudAPIsAWSGoAI
Key highlights
- 10+ years of software engineering experience required.
- Leads a team of ~10 engineers.
- Owns the Third‑Party Audiences product and its end‑to‑end system responsibilities.
- Requires deep expertise in batch and real‑time data processing systems.
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, and technologies like Airflow, Spark, Delta, etc.
- Zeta Global is an AI‑Powered Marketing Cloud listed on NYSE (ZETA) with a strong focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Role overview
Zeta Global is building the next generation of AI‑powered marketing ecosystems. The Prospect Audiences team powers ingestion of behavioral, demographic and geographic identity signals and creates smart audiences from the Zeta Data Cloud, enabling improved targeting and higher ROI. As Director, Engineering you will own the Third‑Party Audiences product, lead a team of about ten engineers, and collaborate with product, business, and architecture groups to shape the roadmap and deliver high‑quality solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Prospect Audiences team, consisting of ~10 engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and operational excellence.
- Guide the team to deliver roadmap work items on time, of high quality, within the boundaries of the organization processes and guidelines.
- Collaborate with product and business teams to shape the future and long‑range roadmap for the team.
- Collaborate with DevEx & AI Enablement teams to drive adoption of AI‑native SDLC in the agentic software development paradigm, as applicable to the technologies used by the team.
- Partner with architects to build a world‑class data ingestion and processing architecture & be at the forefront of technological innovation and continue to challenge yourself to deliver better outcomes for the customers.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop top talent within your team and the data layer in general.
- Own the system end to end, including production deployments, monitoring, distributed tracing, defining SLOs and thresholds for alerting, and managing on‑call support for production incidents.
- Monitor cost profile of the owned systems, participate in cost optimization initiatives, and execute cost optimization projects to keep the overall cost footprint as lean as possible.
- Own how the team ensures reliable, testable pipelines and datasets – quality checks, lineage/observability of critical tables, and clear contracts/SLAs (or handshakes) between data producers and downstream consumers (including when things break).
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time leading large‑scale data systems and teams.
- Deep domain expertise in batch & real‑time data processing systems.
- Understanding of applicability, pros & cons & effectiveness of data engineering design patterns & concepts such as Data Lakehouse, Data Table Format, Zero‑Copy Data Sharing, Cleanroom, Real‑Time vs Batch Data Processing, High throughput distributed system APIs.
- Experience working on data technologies equivalent to Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery; Iceberg, Hudi, Delta; EMR, Airflow, Spark; Aerospike, Scylla, DynamoDB.
- Strong understanding of cloud data architectures (AWS, Snowflake, etc.).
- Track record of innovation and driving measurable outcomes, including AI‑driven or data‑driven product capabilities.
- Exceptional communication skills.
Benefits
- Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion with a workplace culture of trust and belonging.
- Forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another.
Additional details
- 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), Zeta’s 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.
- Founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. Website: www.zetaglobal.com.
- Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, veteran status, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
- Commitment to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging; provides forums for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Diversity, equity and inclusion information: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/
- Press releases and news: https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases. Zeta Global recognized in Enterprise Marketing Software and Cross‑Channel Campaign Management Reports by Independent Research Firm.
- For assistance or further information, please contact Zeta Global.