Principal Infrastructure Security Engineer
At its midpoint, $230k/yr, this role pays more than the $212k/yr midpoint for Security Engineering openings today (usual band $174k–$375k/yr).
The full posting
WHO WE ARE
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 www.zetaglobal.com .
Role Overview
This is a hands-on Principal Infrastructure Security opportunity within the DevSecOps practice that strengthens security across our primarily AWS-based infrastructure and software delivery. Partner with AppSec and InfoSec to prevent issues and respond effectively when they arise. This is a player-coach role: set strategy while staying close to the technical work.
What You'll Do
- Define and execute a risk-based DevSecOps roadmap; establish ownership, metrics, escalation paths, and a plan to grow the team.
- Implement preventive AWS controls for identity, networking, encryption, secrets/key management, and cloud configuration; ensure security-relevant activity is logged for monitoring, investigation, and audit.
- Embed security into IaC, CI/CD, containers/orchestration, and software supply chains (SCA, secrets scanning, artifact integrity/signing, SBOMs where appropriate), including automated pipeline controls (SAST, IaC/container scanning, policy-as-code).
- Partner with AppSec and InfoSec on security testing, policy, risk, audit evidence, and incident response.
- Triage and prioritize vulnerabilities by exposure, exploitability, and business impact; coordinate remediation, track exceptions, and support investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement.
Required qualifications
- 10+ years combined experience in software, platform/DevOps, and security engineering; 3+ years as a technical lead.
- Experience leading cross-functional security or infrastructure initiatives and influencing engineering, DevOps/platform, AppSec, and InfoSec teams.
- Hands-on AWS security and IAM (least privilege, service identities, privileged access, encryption, networking/security boundaries); experience automating controls with scripting, IaC, CI/CD, and policy-as-code.
- Experience securing delivery pipelines end to end (IaC, CI/CD, containers, dependencies/artifacts, secrets).
- Experience prioritizing vulnerabilities by risk and establishing ownership, escalation, exception, and remediation workflows.
- Experience in security incident investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement; ability to communicate risk and tradeoffs to leadership.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building a security/DevSecOps practice and hiring, developing, or managing engineers.
- Kubernetes/container security; software supply chain and secure SDLC practices; security observability/detection partnership with InfoSec/SOC.
- Experience selecting security tools, managing vendors and budgets, and measuring control coverage, risk reduction, and remediation progress.
- Familiarity with public-company or regulated audit controls (e.g., SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employee Equity
- Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance and more!!
SALARY RANGE
The salary range for this role is $220,000 - $240,000, depending on location and experience.
PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
We’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate, support, and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion here: https://zetaglobal.com/blog/a-look-into-zetas-ergs/
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Text as Zeta Global published it; last compared with the original on 11 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details, CV and LinkedIn, then 5 questions.
- 1.Where do you currently reside?Short answer
- 2.Desired SalaryShort answer
- 3.Do you have any familial or close personal relationships with a current Zeta employee?Yes or no
- 4.Are you able to work in the United States?Yes or no
- 5.Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for Employment Visa status?Yes or no
Taken from Zeta Global's application form as it stood on 11 Nov 2026.
The employer: Zeta Global
Zeta Global sells a marketing cloud built on large consumer data sets; its application security leaders protect that data and the software around it.
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