Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zeta Global is an AI-powered marketing cloud company that provides the Zeta Marketing Platform for personalized, omnichannel customer engagement. The Lead Software Engineer will design, build, and operate the real-time events pipeline, leading high-volume event ingestion, processing, and delivery while driving reliability, collaboration, and technical innovation.
Responsibilities
- **Technical Leadership:** Design, implement, and launch event-pipeline features in production. Own architecture for the parts of the pipeline you lead
- **Thought Leadership & Innovation:** Evaluate existing or emerging technologies where they offer a clear cost, latency, or operational advantage, and land those choices in production
- **Engineering Collaboration:** Engage in architectural discussions, take ownership of key pipeline projects, and define stable contracts with downstream consumers
- **Team Mentorship:** Mentor through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing. Help teammates ship via clear interfaces, solid tests, and production-ready patterns
- **Product Collaboration:** Partner with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to turn SLAs (latency, throughput, correctness) into working systems
- **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
Skills
- 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
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