Lead Software Engineer
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Zeta GlobalMarketing Technology
Remote - United StatesFull-TimeLead
Salary190,000 - 205,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonElasticSearchJavaKafkaKubernetesRubyNosqlMicroservicesDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade distributed systems.
- Strong foundation in computer science, distributed systems, and large-scale system design.
- Proven experience architecting systems that operate on large datasets.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized microservices architectures.
- Experience with streaming and data infrastructure technologies such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL databases.
- Strong proficiency in Java, Python, Ruby, or similar object-oriented languages.
- Experience designing APIs and service communication layers (REST, gRPC, Thrift).
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design reviews and influence engineering direction.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools to improve engineering productivity.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architecture of scalable, distributed systems deployed on AWS.
- Design and operate microservices and data-intensive workloads running in Kubernetes (EKS).
- Lead technical design for systems that process and analyze large-scale datasets.
- Establish patterns and best practices for building resilient, observable, and performant services.
- Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering leaders to translate business strategy into long-term technical roadmaps.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions beyond your immediate team.
- Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing strategies across relational and NoSQL systems.
- Mentor engineers, raise the bar on design and code quality, and lead through technical example.
- Take end-to-end ownership of critical platform components, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability.
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