Zeta Global - Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events
Requirements
• Extensive Experience: Minimum of 8–10 years in software engineering, including Lead/Staff-level work on event, streaming, or data-infrastructure systems. • Technical Proficiency: Production experience with event streaming (Kafka or equivalent), Python services and APIs (e.g. FastAPI), and pipeline processing (Spark/EMR or equivalent) where needed. • Technical Proficiency: • Cloud Expertise: Proficient in designing, deploying, and operating systems on AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, RDS, and similar). • Cloud Expertise: • Full Lifecycle Exposure: Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, from design through production, monitoring, and on-call. • Full Lifecycle Exposure: • Programming Skills: Fluency in Python or substantial experience in Scala and Java. • Database Proficiency: Skilled with data stores used around event pipelines (e.g. Postgres/MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB or similar). • Database Proficiency: • Scheduler Experience: Experience with orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. • Operational Mindset: Track record owning high-throughput pipelines in production: incidents, performance and cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs. • Operational Mindset: • Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities; can explain pipeline design and trade-offs to partners who consume ZMP event data.
Responsibilities
• Technical Leadership: Design, implement, and launch event-pipeline features in production. Own architecture for the parts of the pipeline you lead. • Technical Leadership: • Thought Leadership & Innovation: Evaluate existing or emerging technologies where they offer a clear cost, latency, or operational advantage, and land those choices in production. • Thought Leadership & Innovation: • Engineering Collaboration: Engage in architectural discussions, take ownership of key pipeline projects, and define stable contracts with downstream consumers. • Engineering Collaboration: • Team Mentorship: Mentor through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing. Help teammates ship via clear interfaces, solid tests, and production-ready patterns. • Team Mentorship: • Product Collaboration: Partner with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to turn SLAs (latency, throughput, correctness) into working systems. • Product Collaboration: • Infrastructure & Reliability: Instrument services, improve alerting, and own on-call gaps yourself. Drive post-incident fixes (root cause, code, runbooks, dashboards) and keep the pipeline predictable under load. • Infrastructure & Reliability:
Benefits
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage • Employee Equity • Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance and more!! • The salary range for this role is $200,000 - $210,000, 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/ • ZETA IN THE NEWS! • ZETA IN THE NEWS! • https://zetaglobal.com/press/?cat=press-releases
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