Senior Software Engineer (Identity)
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- The Identity team operates the critical backend services powering the Zeta Identity Graph. How do you engineer distributed architectures to manage a profile store running in several terabytes while maintaining single-digit millisecond latencies for billions of monthly events?
- We seek an innovative Senior Software Engineer to help navigate this exact scale, driving a multi-year roadmap to optimize our existing systems and architect our next-generation platform
- Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution, graph transparency, and platform integrations
- Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals
- Deploy and operate cloud-native services on EKS/Kubernetes using Helm
- Ensure absolute reliability, observability, and scalability across services and data pipelines
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions and mentor junior engineers
- Experience with Kafka, streaming frameworks (Spark/Hive/Flink), and schedulers (Airflow/Luigi)
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala, with expertise in API design and distributed systems
- Knowledge of SQL, complex data modeling, and high-throughput NoSQL/columnar databases (Aerospike, Snowflake, Scylla, etc.)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS cloud deployment practices
- 5+ years of experience in backend and/or data engineering at enterprise scale
- Experience designing multi-tenant distributed systems or real-time streaming frameworks (Flink/Storm)
- Knowledge of open table formats (Iceberg, Hudi, Delta Lake) and security/privacy frameworks