Application Platform Architect

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

Role Description

As an Application Platform Architect at Zeta Global, you will be a visionary leader responsible for designing the foundational architecture that supports all of our applications and services. You will focus on building a scalable, reliable, and secure platform that empowers engineering teams to build and deploy applications with speed and efficiency. This role involves defining standards, selecting technologies, and guiding the development of core platform components such as microservices frameworks, APIs, and shared libraries—including those that enable AI agents and agentic workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy: Define the technical vision and roadmap for the Zeta application platform, ensuring it meets the long-term needs of the business and engineering teams.

• Architectural Design: Design and lead the implementation of core platform services, including reusable microservices, APIs, and shared components that serve all applications.

• AI Platform Integration: Architect and build the underlying platform services and APIs that enable the seamless integration of AI agents, large language models (LLMs), and agentic workflows. Design a robust and scalable infrastructure to support these advanced capabilities.

• Scalability & Reliability: Ensure the platform's architecture can handle increasing scale and complexity, with a focus on high availability, performance, and fault tolerance.

• Developer Enablement: Create tools, frameworks, and best practices that improve the developer experience, accelerate development velocity, and ensure consistency across all applications.

• Technology Evaluation: Research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and architectural patterns to keep the platform at the forefront of innovation.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, DevOps, and security teams to embed security, monitoring, and operational best practices into the platform's design and development lifecycle.

• Documentation & Governance: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, guidelines, and governance standards for the platform's architecture and usage.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3-5 years in a lead architect or principal engineer role.

• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale, distributed application platforms.

• Deep expertise in microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Scala, or Python.

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native services.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).

• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar, and a proven track record of architecting platforms to support them.

• Experience with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways.

• Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM) systems.

• Experience with security architecture, including threat modeling and secure-by-design principles.

• A track record of contributing to open-source projects or speaking at industry conferences.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Unlimited PTO
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee Equity
• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more

SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is $300,000 - $400,000, 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:

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