Zetaglobal

Lead Compute Platform Engineer

Berlin, Germany full-time Mid Salary not listed
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WHO WE ARE 

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), our 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. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.

The Role 

As a Senior Compute Platform Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be part of the group responsible for building and running the data infrastructure that powers Zeta's platform, including Zeta’s lakehouse platform. The Data Platform team delivers reliable, cost-efficient data processing that scales with growth — so engineers and analysts can focus on business problems instead of wrestling with infrastructure. 

The Data Platform team empowers data scientists and data engineers through a Scala data warehouse framework designed for data modeling and the creation of type-safe and easily testable batch jobs. The team also orchestrates a compute environment that simplifies the execution of Spark jobs, facilitating the analysis of terabytes of data with ease and cost-effectiveness. The runtime environment is based on Hadoop clusters on EC2 spot instances, dynamically scaling up as required, ensuring high resource utilization and stability. 

Our team is responsible for the development and deployment of the company's next-generation technology, closely collaborating with the company's other branches in San Francisco and Berlin. You will help grow the team through mentoring, code reviews, and knowledge sharing so others can work effectively with our stack. 

Essential Responsibilities: 

As a Senior Compute Platform Engineer, your responsibilities will include: 

Operating and implementing new features in the framework and the services managed by the team 

Engaging with data scientists and identifying ways of improving their experience and productivity when using our framework and services 

Identifying and implementing computational improvements 

Making improvements and/or fixing bugs by submitting patches to open-source projects in our stack, such as Spark, Iceberg, Hadoop, Airflow, and many others 

Acting as an expert on Spark and Scala 

Mentoring engineers (including through pairing, design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions) and helping raise the bar on quality, reliability, and good practices across the team 

 

Desired Characteristics: 

Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience 

A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field 

2+ years of experience and proficiency in Scala or other JVM-based languages 

Experience with Spark and/or other large-scale data-processing frameworks 

Experience with Kubernetes is a plus 

Basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, Athena, etc.) 

Interest in back-end technologies, architecture, and passion for learning new things 

Interest in math, statistics, or adtech technology is a plus 

Analytical approach to problems and pragmatic approach to solutions 

Ability to work independently and enterprisingly in a dynamic environment where work priorities can change 

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to discuss ideas in a distanced and constructive manner
 

SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is €120,000 - €130,000, depending on location and experience. 

PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA

Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.  

We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here:  https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/ 

ZETA IN THE NEWS!

https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases 

 

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