Principal Architect

3 hours ago


San Francisco, California, United States Zeta Global Full time
About Zeta Global

Zeta Global is a leading data-powered marketing cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence and trillions of consumer signals to make marketing more efficient. Our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform.

The Role

We are seeking a Principal Architect to lead the development and maintenance of our software systems, providing technical oversight and strategic insight into their evolution. This role involves engaging with stakeholders, influencing roadmaps, and driving key projects, while evaluating emerging technologies and fostering innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Architectural Vision and Oversight: Develop and maintain the vision for the application and integration architecture across various software systems that drive the business.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide comprehensive technical oversight for different systems, guiding teams in designing and operating production-ready systems.
  • Strategic Thought Leadership: Offer strategic insight on the evolution of system architecture in the short, medium, and long term.
  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage in architectural discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership of key projects and initiatives.
  • Innovation and Problem-Solving: Evaluate emerging technologies and seek innovative solutions to address existing and new challenges.
  • Team Mentorship: Mentor and collaborate with team members to optimize current designs, data models, workflows, and APIs.
  • Product Development Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers to contribute to product design, aiming to create world-class products.
  • Infrastructure Optimization: Work with the DevOps team to design system infrastructure, address problem areas, and lead in system monitoring, observability, and robustness.
  • Industry Engagement: Represent the company at industry events as a product and technology evangelist, contributing to company branding and enhancing technical leadership.
Requirements & Qualifications
  • Extensive Experience: Minimum of 20 years in software engineering, with prior meaningful experience in playing the key role of an architect.
  • Technical Proficiency: Expertise in web and data technologies such as Kafka, HDFS, Spark, EMR, Open Table Formats, Snowflake, Hive, HBase, Scylla, Django, and FastAPI.
  • Cloud Expertise: Proficient in designing, deploying, and managing systems on AWS.
  • Full Lifecycle Exposure: Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, from inception to production and monitoring.
  • Programming Skills: Fluency in Python or substantial experience in Scala and Java.
  • Database Proficiency: Skilled in working with various data stores, including MySQL, Postgres, Scylla, DynamoDB, and Redis.
  • Big Data Technologies: Expertise in big data technologies and frameworks such as Spark, HDFS, and Hive.
  • Scheduler Experience: Experience with schedulers like Apache Airflow, Apache Luigi, and Chronos.
  • Agile Development: Familiarity with agile software development processes.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
Benefits & Perks
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
  • Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance
Compensation Range

The compensation range for this role is $250,000.00 - $350,000.00, 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/


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