Lead Software Engineer, AI Platform

Zeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company transforming how enterprises connect with customers. By combining one of the industry’s largest proprietary identity datasets with cutting-edge AI, we help brands acquire, grow, and retain their best customers. Founded in 2007 and based in New York City, Zeta offers a cloud-native omnichannel marketing platform (ZMP) that unifies data, identity, intelligence, and activation across all digital channels. We serve clients across industries—from financial services to retail, travel, telecom, and beyond. As a publicly traded company (NYSE: ZETA), Zeta continues to scale through innovation in AI, identity graphs, and enterprise-grade marketing solutions.

As a Lead Software Engineer on our AI Platform Team, you will drive the design and development of the next generation of agentic, reliable, and scalable GenAI platforms supporting state-of-the-art large language models, evaluation systems, and secure developer tooling. You will play a key role in shaping technical direction, ensuring architectural excellence, and mentoring peers while collaborating across the company to infuse AI into real-world production solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction and architect multi-tenant GenAI platform systems
• Lead the development of secure, scalable platforms and developer tooling for agentic coding and experimentation
• Integrate generative AI frameworks, LLMs, and evaluation platforms into enterprise-grade solutions
• Solve complex technical challenges, ensuring reliability, security, and performance at scale
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Research, Product, and Engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions

Qualifications:

• 6+ years engineering experience; proficient in C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, or Python
• Experience with generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with GenAI platform technologies (MCP, LangGraph, OpenAI, Bedrock)
• Strong architecture, design, and problem-solving skills with a focus on security and reliability
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions

Company Profile:

Zeta Global is a NYSE listed 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.

Our technology runs on the Zeta Marketing Platform, which powers ‘end to end’ marketing programs for some of the world’s leading brands. With expertise encompassing all digital marketing channels – Email, Display, Social, Search and Mobile – Zeta orchestrates acquisition and engagement programs that deliver results that are scalable, repeatable and sustainable.

Zeta Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ancestry, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, medical condition, disability, veterans status, or any other basis protected by law.

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