Lead Real-Time Events Engineer (Remote)

Zeta Global; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Employee equity

Discounts, wellness classes, pet-ins

Job summary

Zeta Global is hiring a Lead Software Engineer for Real-Time Events to architect, build, and operate high-volume inference pipelines within the ZMP real-time events platform. This role emphasizes hands-on development, on-call ownership, and collaboration with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to meet strict SLA targets.

The position requires 8–10 years in software engineering, strong experience with Kafka and Python/FastAPI, AWS deployments, and a track record of delivering reliable,

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including lead/staff-level work on event/streaming/data-infra systems.
• Production experience with event streaming (Kafka or equivalent), Python services and APIs (e.g. FastAPI).
• Cloud expertise on AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, RDS).
• Full software development lifecycle from design to production, monitoring, and on-call.
• Proficiency in Python or Java/Scala.
• Experience with data stores used around event pipelines (Postgres/MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience with orchestrators like Apache Airflow.
• Operational mindset: high-throughput pipelines, incidents, performance, cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs.
• Excellent communication; able to explain pipeline design and trade-offs to downstream teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate real-time event pipeline features in production.
• Own architecture for pipeline components you lead.
• Evaluate technologies for latency, cost, or reliability benefits and implement in production.
• Mentor through design and code reviews; promote robust interfaces and tests.
• Collaborate with Product/Data/ZMP teams to meet SLAs for latency and throughput.
• Improve instrumentation, alerting, and on-call readiness; drive post-incident fixes.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Event streaming (Kafka)

Python services & APIs (FastAPI)

Spark/EMR

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

Scala/Java proficiency

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Redis/DynamoDB

Apache Airflow

Observability & SLOs

Tools

Airflow

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

DynamoDB

AWS S3

Lambda

Job description

Zeta Global is hiring a Lead Software Engineer for Real-Time Events to architect, build, and operate high-volume inference pipelines within the ZMP real-time events platform. This role emphasizes hands-on development, on-call ownership, and collaboration with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to meet strict SLA targets.

The position requires 8–10 years in software engineering, strong experience with Kafka and Python/FastAPI, AWS deployments, and a track record of delivering reliable,