<p><strong>WHO WE ARE </strong></p> <p>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 <a href="https://www.zetaglobal.com/">www.zetaglobal.com</a>.</p> <p><strong>Role Overview</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are hiring a hands-on</span><span data-contrast="auto"> Staff Software Engineer</span><span data-contrast="auto"> to provide technical leadership for our </span><span data-contrast="auto">Forecasting and Recommendations</span><span data-contrast="auto"> platforms, with a strong focus on </span><span data-contrast="auto">production-grade AI and agentic systems</span><span data-contrast="auto">.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This role centers on designing, building, and operating </span><span data-contrast="auto">high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems</span><span data-contrast="auto"> that power forecasting, recommendations, and AI-driven decisioning at scale. You will work deeply in backend systems, infrastructure, and AI application architecture, while remaining accountable for reliability, observability, and operational excellence.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are looking for an engineer who can contribute immediately, has shouldered real production incidents, and brings strong judgment around building </span><span data-contrast="auto">stable, observable, and scalable systems</span><span data-contrast="auto">, including modern </span><span data-contrast="auto">agentic and LLM-powered applications</span><span data-contrast="auto">.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Design, build, and operate systems supporting forecasting, recommendations, and agentic AI workflows in production.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Write production-quality code daily; own services end-to-end from design through on-call and incident resolution.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Architect low-latency, high-throughput SaaS services, including APIs, data pipelines, model inference, and agent orchestration.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Build and maintain production-grade agentic applications, including tool-using agents, workflow orchestration, and guardrails.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Work fluently with<strong> </strong></span><span data-contrast="auto">foundational LLMs</span><span data-contrast="auto"> (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini Pro), selecting appropriate models and deployment patterns based on latency, cost, and reliability tradeoffs.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-c