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title: 'Senior Engineer, Data Platform at Zeta Global'
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# Senior Engineer, Data Platform at Zeta Global

- **Company:** Zeta Global
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal/jobs/6184166004

## Job description

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will build and operate the data infrastructure that supports Zeta’s products, analytics, machine learning, and AI systems.

This is a broad platform role. Engineers on the team take ownership across Lakehouse architecture, distributed compute, data quality, governance, lineage, security, access controls, and the operational systems that keep the platform running. Individual focus areas will change with team priorities, and you will contribute across the platform as needed.

The team also develops tooling for type-safe, testable data pipelines and operates Spark workloads on dynamically sized Hadoop clusters backed by EC2 Spot instances. We work closely with data engineers, data scientists, infrastructure teams, and product teams to make data dependable, easy to find, secure to use, and cost-effective to process.

Responsibilities:

- Build and operate Lakehouse, Spark, and distributed data-processing systems.
- Improve the performance, reliability, cost, and operational visibility of platform workloads.
- Develop capabilities for data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, discoverability, security, and access control.
- Build the data context required for trusted reporting, ML models, and AI agents.
- Evaluate compute and query engines for read-heavy workloads, assessing cost, performance, reliability, and operational fit.
- Assess real-time OLAP technologies and identify appropriate production use cases.
- Improve deployment, observability, incident response, developer tooling, and platform operations.
- Partner with data scientists and data engineers to improve their experience using the platform.
- Contribute fixes and improvements to relevant open-source projects, including Spark, Iceberg, and Airflow.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong experience in Python, Scala, Java, or another JVM language.
- Experience with Spark or another distributed data-processing framework.
- Experience building or operating production data platforms, backend systems, or distributed systems.
- Familiarity with at least 1 of these areas: Lakehouse architecture, Apache Iceberg, data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, query engines, or real-time OLAP.
- Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Athena, and IAM.
- Experience improving production reliability through monitoring, alerting, deployment automation, and incident response.
- Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow, Trino, ClickHouse, Starrocks, or Pinot is a plus.

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.

Zeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company that enables enterprise brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers through intelligent, data-driven engagement. At the center of its innovation is the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), which unifies customer data, identity, and advanced analytics to transform billions of data signals into actionable marketing intelligence and measurable business outcomes.

Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZETA), Zeta is redefining modern marketing with Athena by Zeta™, a superintelligent, conversational agent embedded in ZMP that personalizes the marketer’s workspace, surfaces platform generated insights through natural dialogue and recommends next-best actions to help brands accelerate and optimize their marketing outcomes.

Learn more about Zeta:

https://zetaglobal.com/press-news/

## About Zeta Global

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud platform that unifies identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation to help enterprise brands acquire, grow, and retain customers.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ZETA)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: David A. Steinberg and John Sculley (former Apple CEO and Pepsi President)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Marketing technology (MarTech), Advertising technology (AdTech), Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: Enterprise brands and scaled enterprises (defined as customers generating at least $100,000 in trailing twelve-month revenue); over 450 such customers across diverse verticals
- Mission or purpose statement: "Accelerate Brand Growth" by enabling brands to build repeatable and scalable programs that drive higher ROI on marketing investments

## Products & Services
- **Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP)**: The core omnichannel marketing platform that leverages proprietary AI and trillions of consumer signals. It unifies identity, intelligence, and activation into a single platform, enabling personalized experiences across email, social media, web, SMS, connected TV, video, and more.
- **Athena by Zeta™**: An agentic AI solution that puts AI at the center of every marketing decision, enabling automated workflows, spend optimization, and scaling of impact across the customer journey.
- **Data & Analytics**: A proprietary opt-in database of unique global identifiers, providing deterministic attribution, real-time intent data, and interest/intent audiences for precise targeting and measurable outcomes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded on NYSE; market cap fluctuates (latest data not specified in search results)
- **Key Metric**: Over 450 scaled enterprise customers; over 1,700 employees globally (as of investor relations page), with recent headcount exceeding 2,000 (as of life-at-Zeta page)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Co-founded by John Sculley (former Apple CEO); recent strategic partnership announced with Palantir (June 2026) to build unified data and AI infrastructure for marketing
- **Growth Signals**: Strategic partnership with Palantir; launch of Athena by Zeta™ for agencies; consistent expansion of enterprise customer base; global office presence across 12+ locations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Identity Data**: One of the industry’s largest proprietary opt-in databases, providing a unique foundation for deterministic attribution and real-time intent targeting.
- **Unified Platform**: Combines identity, intelligence, and activation into a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple point solutions and vendor silos—directly addressing a key pain point for CMOs.
- **AI-First Approach**: Leverages advanced AI and agentic AI (Athena) to automate and optimize marketing workflows, making sophisticated marketing simple and scalable.
- **Founding Leadership**: Co-founded by a former Apple CEO, bringing deep industry credibility and strategic vision.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI and Automation**: Deepening investment in agentic AI (Athena by Zeta) to automate marketing decisions and workflows, reducing manual effort for marketers.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Expanding strategic partnerships (e.g., Palantir) to build unified data and AI infrastructure, opening new capabilities for enterprise clients.
- **Agency Channel**: Bringing Athena by Zeta to agencies, extending the platform’s reach beyond direct enterprise customers.
- **Global Expansion**: Maintaining and growing a global footprint with offices in the US, India, Europe, and South America to serve multinational clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes "Achieving the Impossible™" with virtues like "Curiosity Beats Certainty," "Fearless Exploration," "Always Learning," and "Humanize." The culture is described as collaborative, innovative, and supportive of individual growth.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for LGBTQIA+, women, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian & Pacific Islander, Black community, neurodiverse employees, and sustainability-focused groups.
- **Work Policy**: Offers hybrid and remote work options, with in-office events and virtual engagement. Specific policies vary by role and location.
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay equity, 401k with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible time off, generous parental leave, wellness programs (Caravan app, gym discounts), commuter benefits, and adoption assistance. In the US, includes medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD, life insurance. EMEA offices offer pensions, work-from-home allowances, and lunch vouchers.
- **Career Growth**: Emphasizes "Always Learning" as a core virtue, with opportunities for mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and internal mobility. Hiring process includes a first chat with Talent, team interviews, and an onboarding program designed for connection.
- **Global Presence**: Opportunity to work in major hubs like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Paris, Prague, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and more.

## Sources
1. [Zeta Global Official Site](https://zetaglobal.com/)
2. [Zeta Global - Our Story and Mission](https://zetaglobal.com/about/our-story/)
3. [Zeta Global - Benefits and Hiring](https://zetaglobal.com/about/benefits-and-hiring/)
4. [Zeta Global - Investor Relations](https://investors.zetaglobal.com/overview/default.aspx)
5. [Zeta Global - Life at Zeta](https://zetaglobal.com/about/life-at-zeta/)
6. [Zeta Global - Careers Page (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/zetaglobal)

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