Lead Software Engineer – Real-Time Events

The role

You will design, build and run the real-time events pipeline for the Zeta Marketing Platform. The work is hands-on and covers ingesting, processing and delivering high-volume event data.

What you will do

• Design, implement and launch event-pipeline features in production
• Own architecture for the parts of the pipeline you lead
• Evaluate existing or emerging technologies where they offer a clear cost, latency or operational advantage
• Take part in architectural discussions and define stable contracts with downstream consumers
• Mentor through design reviews, code reviews and pairing
• Partner with Product, Data and ZMP consumer teams to turn latency, throughput and correctness targets into working systems
• Instrument services, improve alerting and own on-call gaps
• Drive post-incident fixes including root cause, code, runbooks and dashboards

Required qualifications

• 8-10 years in software engineering, including Lead or 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)
• Pipeline processing (Spark/EMR or equivalent) where needed
• Cloud experience on AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, RDS and similar)
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, from design through production, monitoring and on-call
• Fluency in Python, or substantial experience in Scala and Java
• Experience 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
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

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

About the company

Zeta Global is an AI-Powered Marketing Cloud, headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. It is listed on the NYSE under ZETA.