Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events

🕒 August 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Zeta Global

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2024-09

Consulting • Logistics • Travel

Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud that leverages proprietary AI and trillions of consumer signals to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. The Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP) offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including data management, customer data platforms (CDP), email service providers (ESP), and digital signal processing (DSP), to create individualized customer experiences and improve marketing outcomes. Zeta emphasizes omnichannel marketing, customer intelligence, and data-driven marketing strategies, partnering with brands, agencies, and publishers worldwide to accelerate brand growth and engagement. Their platform is designed to tackle complex marketing challenges with solutions for customer acquisition, growth, and retention through predictive AI and actionable consumer data.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and launch event-pipeline features in production • Own architecture for the parts of the pipeline led • Evaluate existing or emerging technologies offering clear cost, latency, or operational advantages, and deploy those choices in production • Engage in architectural discussions and take ownership of key pipeline projects • Define stable contracts with downstream consumers • Mentor teammates through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing • Help teammates ship using clear interfaces, solid tests, and production-ready patterns • Partner with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to turn latency, throughput, and correctness SLAs into working systems • Instrument services and improve alerting • Own on-call gaps and drive post-incident fixes, including root cause analysis, code, runbooks, and dashboards • Keep the pipeline predictable under load

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8–10 years in software engineering, including Lead/Staff-level work on event, streaming, or data-infrastructure systems • Production experience with event streaming (Kafka or equivalent), Python services and APIs (e.g. FastAPI), and pipeline processing (Spark/EMR or equivalent) where needed • Proficient in designing, deploying, and operating systems on AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, RDS, and similar) • Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, from design through production, monitoring, and on-call • Fluency in Python or substantial experience in Scala and Java • Skilled with data stores used around event pipelines (e.g. Postgres/MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB or similar) • Experience with orchestrators such as Apache Airflow • Track record owning high-throughput pipelines in production: incidents, performance and cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs • Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities; can explain pipeline design and trade-offs to partners who consume ZMP event data

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage • Employee Equity • Employee Discounts • Virtual Wellness Classes • Pet Insurance