Staff Software Engineer - Performance Advisor
Zeta Global18 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production systems for forecasting, recommendations, and agentic AI workflows.
- Write production-quality backend code and own services end-to-end through design, on-call support, and incident resolution.
- Architect low-latency, high-throughput SaaS services, including APIs, data pipelines, model inference, and agent orchestration.
- Build production-grade tool-using agents, workflow orchestration, and guardrails.
- Select and deploy foundational LLMs based on latency, cost, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Champion observability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, post-incident analysis, and systemic reliability improvements.
- Lead and participate in production incident response, retrospectives, architectural reviews, and cross-team technical guidance.
- Set six- to twelve-month technical direction, simplify complex systems, and ship major services, shared libraries, or infrastructure improvements.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems.
- Demonstrated hands-on ownership of business-critical services with measurable improvements in latency, throughput, stability, or cost.
- Deep expertise in systems design, service boundaries, concurrency, data modeling, failure handling, and scalability tradeoffs.
- Production experience supporting machine-learning-driven systems, including serving, pipelines, and infrastructure.
- Expert-level AWS experience and experience operating software in both on-premises data centers and AWS cloud environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
- At least two years of Python experience and proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Go, or Scala.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, own substantial portions of a codebase and architecture, and influence standards across teams.
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
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.