Senior Engineering Manager (Platform Engineering)

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Senior Engineering Manager (Platform Engineering)

Zeta Global

Senior Engineering Manager (Platform Engineering)

Skills

PostgreSQLKafkaRedisSnowflakeData AnalysisAWSKubernetes

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Contract type:

Permanent

Salary:

$225,000 – $240,000 / year

Location:

United States

Work mode:

Onsite

Published on:

18 August 2026

What they need

Zeta Global is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead a critical area of the application platform that powers the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP)
Reporting to SVP Engineering, this leader will own the technical execution, architecture, roadmap, and delivery for one or more core platform domains
The role requires strong technical judgment, exceptional engineering leadership, and the ability to drive complex initiatives across multiple engineering teams
This is a deeply technical leadership role. The Senior Engineering Manager is expected to remain actively involved in architecture, design reviews, technical decision-making, and production operations while developing engineers and technical leads and delivering reliable platform capabilities at scale
Platform Engineering delivers the shared application primitives, services, and guardrails that enable product engineering teams to build consistent, scalable, secure, and reliable applications across ZMP
The team’s mission is to provide reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity while ensuring platform consistency, operational excellence, and long-term architectural sustainability
Own multiple core application platform domains, which include, but not limited to:
Platform authentication and authorization
Account, organization, workspace, and tenant management
Notifications and messaging infrastructure
Shared application services and reusable platform primitives
Platform APIs, API Gateway and extension mechanisms
Common developer frameworks and platform tooling
Shared operational capabilities
The Senior Engineering Manager is accountable for the architecture, implementation, operational excellence, and adoption of their platform domains
Technical Leadership:
Lead the architecture and technical direction for assigned platform domains
Translate platform strategy into executable engineering roadmaps
Drive technical design for shared services, APIs, schemas, and reusable platform capabilities
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
Engineering Leadership:
Build and lead a high-performing team of platform engineers and technical leads
Coach and develop engineers through mentoring, technical guidance, and regular feedback
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
Platform Delivery:
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
Cross-Team Collaboration:
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
Reliability, Security, and Operational Excellence:
Ensure shared platform services meet availability, latency, scalability, and recovery objectives
Embed observability, monitoring, capacity planning, and operational readiness into platform design
Improve tenant isolation, workload fairness, and platform resiliency
Partner with Security teams to build secure-by-default platform capabilities
Drive continuous improvements in operational efficiency, reliability, and cloud cost optimization
Success will be measured through:
Delivery of platform roadmap commitments
Adoption of shared platform capabilities
Platform availability, reliability, and operational health
Improved developer productivity and satisfaction
Successful migrations and retirement of legacy services
Team engagement, growth, and engineering effectiveness
Improvements in platform scalability and cloud efficiency- Strong operational knowledge of observability, incident management, and production readiness
Experience designing and operating highly available production services
Experience leading engineering teams responsible for platform, backend, or infrastructure services
Experience partnering with multiple engineering teams to deliver shared capabilities
Significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed platforms or multi-tenant SaaS systems
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Strong technical expertise in distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native architectures, and shared platform services
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and grow technical leaders
Experience building marketing technology, customer-data, analytics, or large-scale SaaS platforms
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar technologies
Experience implementing identity, authorization, multi-tenancy, API gateways, or workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal
Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
Experience driving adoption of shared engineering platforms

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