Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events
Zeta GlobalBase Salary
$200k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, launch, and architect production features for the real-time events pipeline.
- Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve cost, latency, or operational performance.
- Own key pipeline projects, participate in architecture discussions, and define stable contracts with downstream consumers.
- Mentor teammates through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and production-ready engineering practices.
- Partner with Product, Data, and Zeta Marketing Platform consumer teams to implement latency, throughput, and correctness SLAs.
- Instrument services, improve alerting, address on-call gaps, and drive post-incident fixes, runbooks, and dashboards.
Requirements
- Minimum 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including Lead or Staff-level work on event, streaming, or data-infrastructure systems.
- Production experience with event streaming such as Kafka, Python services and APIs such as FastAPI, and pipeline processing such as Spark or EMR.
- Proficiency designing, deploying, and operating systems on AWS, including S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, and RDS.
- Fluency in Python or substantial experience with Scala and Java.
- Experience with databases and data stores such as Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB.
- Experience with orchestrators such as Apache Airflow.
- Experience owning high-throughput production pipelines, including incidents, performance, cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs.
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle, from design through production monitoring and on-call.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for explaining pipeline designs and trade-offs to partners.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Employee equity.
- Employee discounts, virtual wellness classes, and pet insurance.
Tech Stack
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About 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