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Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform - powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. Zeta was founded in 2007 by David A. Steinberg and John Sculley and is headquartered in New York City with offices around the world. To learn more, go to www.zetaglobal.com.\nRole Overview\nZeta Global is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join Real-Time Events (RTE). This is a highly hands-on IC role. 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Help teammates ship via clear interfaces, solid tests, and production-ready patterns.\n Product Collaboration: Partner with Product, Data, and ZMP consumer teams to turn SLAs (latency, throughput, correctness) into working systems.\n 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.\nDesired Qualifications and Expertise\nExtensive Experience: Minimum of 8-10 years in software engineering, including Lead/Staff-level work on event, streaming, or data-infrastructure systems.\n Technical Proficiency: Production experience with event streaming (Kafka or equivalent), Python services and APIs (e.g. FastAPI), and pipeline processing (Spark/EMR or equivalent) where needed.\n Cloud Expertise: Proficient in designing, deploying, and operating systems on AWS (S3, SQS/SNS, Lambda, RDS, and similar).\nFull Lifecycle Exposure: Experience with the complete software development lifecycle, from design through production, monitoring, and on-call.\nProgramming Skills: Fluency in Python or substantial experience in Scala and Java.\n Database Proficiency: Skilled with data stores used around event pipelines (e.g. Postgres/MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB or similar).\nScheduler Experience: Experience with orchestrators such as Apache Airflow.\nOperational Mindset: Track record owning high-throughput pipelines in production: incidents, performance and cost, observability, data quality, and SLOs.\nCommunication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities; can explain pipeline design and trade-offs to partners who consume ZMP event data.\nBENEFITS & PERKS\nUnlimited PTO\nExcellent medical, dental, and vision coverage\nEmployee Equity\nEmployee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance and more!!\nSALARY RANGE\nThe salary range for this role is $200,000 - $210,000, depending on location and experience. \nPEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA\nZeta considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Zeta discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. \nWe’re committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging, so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. 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