Lead Real-Time Events Engineer

Zeta Global; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Premium medical/dental/vision coverage

Employee equity

Discounts, wellness programs, pet보험

Job summary

Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Real-Time Events to design, build, and operate the high-volume RTE pipeline powering the ZMP. This hands-on IC role requires architectural ownership, mentoring, and close collaboration with Product, Data, and consumer teams.

You will implement production-ready features, improve latency, throughput, and reliability, and drive on-call incident response while shaping the future of Zeta’s real-time data platform.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8–10 years in software engineering, with lead/staff experience on data-infrastructure.
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Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and launch production-grade event-pipeline features.
• Maintain architecture ownership for pipeline components.
• Collaborate with Product/Data teams to meet SLAs for latency and throughput.
• Mentor team members through reviews and production-ready patterns.
• Drive reliability, observability, and post-incident fixes.

Skills

8–10 years experience

Event streaming (Kafka)

Python services

Scala & Java

Spark/EMR

AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, RDS)

Airflow

Postgres/MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB

Tools

Kafka

FastAPI

Airflow

Spark/EMR

Job description

Zeta Global is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for Real-Time Events to design, build, and operate the high-volume RTE pipeline powering the ZMP. This hands-on IC role requires architectural ownership, mentoring, and close collaboration with Product, Data, and consumer teams.

You will implement production-ready features, improve latency, throughput, and reliability, and drive on-call incident response while shaping the future of Zeta’s real-time data platform.