Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events
Zeta Global2 months ago
Base 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
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Zeta Global
Zeta Global builds an AI-powered marketing cloud that unifies customer data, analytics, and omnichannel activation for enterprise brands and agencies. Its Zeta Marketing Platform combines martech and adtech—spanning CRM, email, display, and social—to acquire, grow, and retain customers on a subscription and media-buying model. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York City, Zeta is a public company trading on the NYSE under the ticker ZETA.