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Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering
senior engineering manager platform engineering distributed systems SaaS cloud-native AWS Kubernetes Kafka Snowflake ClickHouse Iceberg PostgreSQL Redis Temporal API Gateway multi-tenancy FinOps mentoring technical leadership platform services developer productivity operational excellence
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$225K – $240K
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Full job description Zeta Global seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead core platform domains of the Zeta Marketing Platform. The role involves technical execution, architecture, roadmap, and delivery of platform services including authentication, account management, notifications, APIs, developer frameworks, and operational capabilities. Responsibilities include technical leadership, team building, mentoring, platform delivery, cross-team collaboration, and ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence. Required qualifications include experience with large-scale distributed platforms, engineering leadership, cloud-native architectures, observability, and mentoring. Preferred experience includes marketing technology platforms, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Redis, Temporal, and FinOps. Benefits include unlimited PTO, medical/dental/vision coverage, equity, discounts, wellness classes, and pet insurance. Salary range: $225,000 - $240,000. Location: New York, NY.
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Review designs and ensure alignment with platform architecture and engineering standards
Identify scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability risks
Champion reusable solutions and eliminate unnecessary duplication across product teams
Guide migrations, versioning, and adoption of platform capabilities
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Establish clear ownership, accountability, and engineering best practices within the team
Foster a culture of operational excellence, engineering quality, and continuous improvement
Balance new platform investments with operational responsibilities and technical debt
Work with other engineering teams to champion the platform domains and their benefits, drive adoption of the services
Deliver platform capabilities that simplify and accelerate product development
Partner with product engineering teams to understand platform requirements and improve developer experience
Build self-service capabilities that reduce friction and increase platform adoption
Measure platform success through adoption, reliability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency
Partner with Product Engineering, Data Platform, Architecture, SRE, DevOps, Security, and FinOps teams
Coordinate delivery of initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
Resolve technical dependencies and implementation challenges
Drive alignment around platform standards and engineering best practices
Communicate technical trade-offs, priorities, and delivery risks clearly
Ensure shared platform services meet availability, latency, scalability, and recovery objectives
Embed observability, monitoring, capacity planning, and operational readiness into platform design
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Partner with Security teams to build secure-by-default platform capabilities
Drive continuous improvements in operational efficiency, reliability, and cloud cost optimization Requirements Significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed platforms or multi-tenant SaaS systems Experience leading engineering teams responsible for platform, backend, or infrastructure services Strong technical expertise in distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, and shared platform services Experience designing and operating highly available production services Experience partnering with multiple engineering teams to deliver shared capabilities Strong operational knowledge of observability, incident management, and production readiness Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and grow technical leaders Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills Preferred: Experience building marketing technology, customer-data, analytics, or large-scale SaaS platforms Preferred: Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar technologies Preferred: Experience implementing identity, authorization, multi-tenancy, API gateways, or workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal Preferred: Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices Preferred: Experience driving adoption of shared engineering platforms Tech stack AWS Kubernetes Kafka Snowflake ClickHouse Iceberg PostgreSQL Redis Temporal API Gateway Cloud-native architectures Distributed systems Multi-tenant SaaS
Benefits Unlimited PTO Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage Employee Equity Employee Discounts Virtual Wellness Classes Pet Insurance
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Company
Zeta Global At Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), we help enterprise brands and agencies Achieve the Impossible™ with superintelligent marketing. Powered by proprietary AI and trillions of real-time signals, the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) brings martech and adtech together – unifying identity, intelligence, and activation in one unified place. We enable marketers to deliver personalized experiences that drive measurable growth in the next era of marketing. At the center of this evolution is Athena by Zeta, our superintelligent conversational agent built for predictable, profitable growth. Seamlessly integrated into the ZMP, Athena helps marketers understand performance, identify opportunities, and take action in real time—surfacing insights on spend, audiences, and campaigns, recommending next best moves, and even launching and optimizing campaigns on their behalf. Behind our platform is a global team of 3,000+ employees driven by innovation, collaboration, and a shared focus on customer success. Founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, Zeta is headquartered in New York City. Learn more at www.zetaglobal.com
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