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title: 'Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Zeta'
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# Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Zeta

- **Company:** Zeta
- **Location:** Hyderabad, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zeta/5eb7a75b-312c-4759-8813-70e67b5d4109

## Job description

## About Us

Build the future of banking. Zeta is a next-generation banking technology company providing cloud-native, fully stackable processing and core banking platforms for issuers. With a focus on scalability, compliance, and innovation, Zeta empowers financial institutions to modernize their technology infrastructure and deliver secure, seamless digital banking experiences.

Our impact runs at real-world scale. Today, over 25 million cards are live on Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by a passionate team of 1,700+ Zetanauts across India, the US, EMEA, and Asia. Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, Mastercard, and other reputed strategic investors, we reached a valuation of $2 billion in 2025.

Our focus is on establishing product lines that focus on key outcomes by addressing real customer pain points, modernizing legacy systems, and strengthening core fundamentals. As a result, our systems and platforms support a wide range of banking and payments capabilities, including:

1. Tachyon, our cloud-native banking stack built for population-scale systems
2. Cipher, our unified authentication platform for secure, high-volume banking environments
3. Digital Credit as a Service, enabling banks to launch credit lines on UPI
4. Elena, our intelligent and conversational AI platform for banking.
5. Pixel, India’s first digital-native credit card, launched in partnership with HDFC Bank, for whom we also revamped their PayZapp mobile app: Winner of the Celent Model Bank Award for Payments Innovation 2024.
6. Sparrow, the leading card experience for non-prime cardholders in the US …and more across cards, payments, lending, and core banking.

We are an engineering-first organization that values ownership, bias for action, and long-term thinking. Together, we solve some of the hardest problems in banking tech. Our culture is built around trust, collaboration, and creating the conditions for you to drive impact proportionate to your potential. Reinforcing our commitment to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace, we have been consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work. If you want to build cutting-edge banking tech that enables banks to serve millions reliably, securely, and at a population scale, Zeta is your playground.If you would like to learn more about how we have grown and evolved over the years, watch our journey here. You can also explore our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram,YouTube, and X.

## Responsibilities

- Establish a SRE site and help build an effective, inclusive SRE team.
- Provide technical leadership for the local team and work closely with partner team technical leads and cloud leadership.
- Provide guidance to other team members on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.
- Manage execution of project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Lead Incident Management during Incidents.
- Responsible for driving MTTR as per the Incident SLA.
- Responsible for having 100% coverage for various alerts covering Application, Infrasture, Security, Flows etc

## Skills

- Experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience in MySQL or Postgres SQL in database.
- Hands-on experience on operating with k8s and any cloud.
- Excellent communication skills and a sense of ownership, with a systematic problem-solving approach

Experience and Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in engineering (computer science, information systems)
- 6-10 years of experience in distributed systems, storage systems, or databases, algorithms and data structures and/or Unix/Linux systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) and administration

Zeta is an equal opportunity employer. At Zeta, we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of job history, disability, gender identity, religion, race, marital/parental status, or another special status. We are proud to be an equitable workplace that welcomes individuals from all walks of life if they fit the roles and responsibilities.

## About Zeta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud that unifies identity, intelligence, and activation to help enterprises drive measurable growth across the full customer lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ZETA)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA (3 Park Ave, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10016)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: David A. Steinberg and John Sculley (former Apple CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-powered marketing technology / enterprise SaaS
- **Target Customers**: B2B enterprises (CMOs and marketing teams)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Accelerate Brand Growth” by making modern marketing easier, more intelligent, and provably effective.

## Products & Services
- **Zeta Data Cloud**: A proprietary identity graph and data platform that builds intelligence around individuals, not segments, for precision at scale.
- **Customer Data Platform (CDP)**: Turns fragmented data into a clear, actionable view of each customer journey.
- **Acquisition**: Profitable new customer targeting using better data and efficient, scalable activation.
- **Personalized Engagement**: Cross-channel campaigns optimized with real-time signals.
- **Loyalty**: Customer retention and advocacy through meaningful rewards and experiences.
- **Analytics**: Real-time optimization and provable ROI measurement across campaigns.

All offerings are delivered as a unified SaaS platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources (public company; market cap available on financial platforms)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees – 2,000+ globally (as of 2026)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Co-founded by John Sculley (former Apple CEO); other institutional investors not listed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: 142 active job openings across engineering, data science, customer solutions, and more; offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Hyderabad; expanding remote roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary AI & Identity Graph**: Zeta’s Data Cloud includes one of the industry’s most advanced identity graphs, enabling individual-level intelligence rather than segment-based targeting.
- **Unified Platform**: Covers the full customer lifecycle (acquisition, engagement, loyalty, analytics) in one system, breaking down traditional silos.
- **Provable ROI**: Every dollar spent is tied to real outcomes, giving decision-makers confidence in investment.
- **Scale & Enterprise Focus**: Designed for large brands with complex marketing needs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic Marketing**: Zeta positions itself as “the intelligence layer for agentic marketing,” guiding every decision, action, and outcome with AI.
- **Continuous Learning**: The platform continuously improves from real-time signals to deliver smarter advantages.
- **Cross-Channel Optimization**: Emphasis on unifying data and activation across channels for efficiency and measurable business outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Achieving the Impossible™” – a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment that encourages innovation and impact.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active employee resource groups for Asian & Pacific Islander, sustainability, neurodiversity, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQIA+, and women.
- **Work Flexibility**: Mix of in-office (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Hyderabad) and remote roles (e.g., VP Data Cloud Consulting – Remote US).
- **Engineering & Data Focus**: Large number of openings in software development, data engineering, data science, site reliability, and security engineering.
- **Growth Opportunity**: 2,000+ employees with 142 open positions, indicating scaling and career advancement potential.

## Sources
1. [Zeta Global Website](https://www.zetaglobal.com/)
2. [Zeta Global – About Us](https://www.zetaglobal.com/about/)
3. [Zeta Global – Life at Zeta](https://www.zetaglobal.com/about/life-at-zeta/)
4. [Zeta Global Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/zeta)
5. [Zeta Global Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal)

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