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Staff Software Engineer (Performance Advisor)

Zeta Global

Skills

Required

  • forecasting
  • pipelines
  • infrastructure
  • AWS
  • software engineering
  • machine learning–driven
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • Scala
  • GitHub

Preferred

  • own services end-to-end
  • APIs
  • data pipelines
  • model inference
  • agent orchestration

Join our team as a Staff Software Engineer, where you will provide technical leadership for our Forecasting and Recommendations platforms. You will design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that power forecasting, recommendations, and AI-driven decision-making at scale. This role requires strong experience in backend systems, infrastructure, and AI application architecture, as well as a commitment to reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate systems supporting forecasting, recommendations, and agentic AI workflows in production.
  • Write production-quality code daily; own services end-to-end from design through on-call and incident resolution.
  • Architect low-latency, high-throughput SaaS services, including APIs, data pipelines, model inference, and agent orchestration.
  • Set short- to medium-term (6–12 month) technical direction for your domain
  • Ship multiple large services, shared libraries, or major infrastructure improvements
  • Influence standards and architectural decisions across teams through credibility and collaboration
  • A strong track record of hands-on ownership of business-critical services, including measurable improvements in latency, throughput, stability, or cost

Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems
  • Production experience supporting machine learning–driven systems (forecasting, recommendations, or similar), with emphasis on serving, pipelines, and infrastructure
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and modern CI/CD pipelines
  • 2+ years of experience in Python and proficiency in one or more backend languages commonly used for large-scale systems (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Scala)
  • Be a prolific, hands-on contributor who raises the bar through example
  • Expert-level experience with AWS, including designing, deploying, and operating large-scale cloud-native systems
  • Experience operating software in both on-prem data center and AWS cloud environments
  • Fluency with modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and comfort working in “vibe coding”–style workflows that favor fast iteration, tight feedback loops, and continuous refactoring
  • Simplify complex systems to increase team velocity and reliability
  • Own and deeply understand large portions of the codebase and system architecture
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Balance technical, analytical, and product constraints to deliver pragmatic solutions
  • Deep expertise in systems design, including service boundaries, concurrency, data modeling, failure handling, and scalability tradeoffs

Pay

USD 220,000 - 240,000