Application Platform Architect
Zeta Global
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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.
Company Profile:
Zeta Global is a data-powered marketing technology company with a heritage of innovation and industry leadership. Founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David A. Steinberg and John Sculley, former CEO of Apple Inc and Pepsi-Cola, the Company combines the industry’s 3rd largest proprietary data set (2.4B+ identities) with Artificial Intelligence to unlock consumer intent, personalize experiences and help our clients drive business growth.
Zeta Global is a leading AI-powered marketing technology company that enables enterprise brands to acquire, grow, and retain customers through intelligent, data-driven engagement. At the center of its innovation is the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), which unifies customer data, identity, and advanced analytics to transform billions of data signals into actionable marketing intelligence and measurable business outcomes.
Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZETA), Zeta is redefining modern marketing with Athena by Zeta™, a superintelligent, conversational agent embedded in ZMP that personalizes the marketer’s workspace, surfaces platform generated insights through natural dialogue and recommends next-best actions to help brands accelerate and optimize their marketing outcomes.
Learn more about Zeta: https://zetaglobal.com/press-news/
About this role
Zeta Global is seeking an Application Platform Architect to design and own the foundational infrastructure that powers the company's marketing technology ecosystem. In this leadership role, you'll define the technical vision and strategy for a platform serving multiple engineering teams, with a particular focus on enabling AI agents and agentic workflows at scale. Your work will span core platform services—microservices frameworks, APIs, shared libraries—alongside the infrastructure needed to integrate large language models and advanced AI capabilities into the broader system.
The role demands deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, cloud-native technologies, and DevOps practices, backed by at least 10 years in software engineering and 3–5 years in an architect or principal engineer capacity. You'll need hands-on proficiency with microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, and AWS, combined with the ability to evaluate emerging technologies and embed security and operational best practices into platform design. Beyond technical depth, you'll partner across engineering, DevOps, and security teams to establish governance standards, improve developer experience, and maintain comprehensive documentation.
If you have a track record architecting large-scale platforms and are energized by the challenge of building infrastructure that balances innovation with reliability—especially in AI-driven contexts—this is a full-time, in-office position in Bangalore where your decisions will directly shape how Zeta's engineering organization scales.
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