Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events
Zeta Global2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, launch, and operate production features for the real-time event pipeline.
- Own architecture for pipeline components and evaluate technologies for cost, latency, and operational improvements.
- Lead architectural discussions, pipeline projects, and stable contracts with downstream consumers.
- Mentor teammates through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing.
- Partner with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to translate latency, throughput, and correctness SLAs into working systems.
- Instrument services, improve alerting, address on-call gaps, and drive post-incident fixes including code, runbooks, and dashboards.
- Own high-throughput pipeline performance, cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs.
Requirements
- Minimum of 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.
- Experience across the complete software development lifecycle from design through production monitoring and on-call.
- Fluency in Python or substantial experience with Scala and Java.
- Experience with event-pipeline data stores such as Postgres/MySQL, Redis, and DynamoDB.
- Experience with schedulers or orchestrators such as Apache Airflow.
- Track record owning high-throughput production pipelines, incidents, performance, cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain 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.