Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
WHO WE ARE
Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Design implement and launch new product features using technologies that are inuse currently within the company or propose alternative technologies with proven significant cost and performance advantage.
- Thought Leadership & Innovation: Participate in evaluating technology alternatives existing or emerging to problems being solved in the product area of responsibility that can take the company to the next level of technology leadership in the market.
- Engineering Collaboration: Engage in architectural discussions influence the roadmap and take ownership of key projects and initiatives.
- Team Mentorship: Mentor and collaborate with team members to optimize current designs data models workflows and APIs.
- Product Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers to contribute to product design aiming to create worldclass products.
- Infrastructure Optimization: Work with the DevOps team to design system infrastructure address problem areas and lead in system monitoring observability and robustness.
Desired Qualifications and Expertise:
- Extensive Experience: Minimum of 15 years in software engineering with prior meaningful experience in data engineering.
- Technical Proficiency: Expertise in web and data technologies such as Kafka HDFS Spark EMR Open Table Formats Snowflake Hive HBase Scylla Django and FastAPI.
- Big Data Technologies: Expertise in big data technologies and frameworks such as Spark HDFS and Hive. Experience with interoperability of data formats with different data techonolgies.
- Cloud Expertise: Proficient in designing deploying and managing systems on AWS.
- Full Lifecycle Exposure: Experience with the complete software development lifecycle from inception to production and monitoring.
- Programming Skills: Fluency in Python or substantial experience in Scala and Java.
- Database Proficiency: Skilled in working with various data stores equivalent of MySQL Postgres Scylla DynamoDB Aerospike and Redis.
- Scheduler Experience: Experience with schedulers like Apache Airflow Apache Luigi and Chronos.
- Agile Development: Familiarity with agile software development processes.
- Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
WHO WE ARE
Job Overview:
We are looking for a dynamic and highly skilled Senior SRE Engineer to join the team.
Key Responsibilities:
Implement and manage SLOs SLIs and error budgets.
Lead and promote postmortems ensuring robust root cause analysis to drive continuous system improvement. Analyze historical data to identify improvement areas.
Implement full observability across systems using OpenTelemetry.
Reduce toil through runbook automation.
Record and track key MTTx metrics (MTTA MTTR MTTF etc..
Lead design sessions on capacity planning reliability by design automation and alerting.
Collaborate with product teams to enhance system reliability.
Engage in strategic initiatives for capacity reliability and automation ensuring alignment with business goals.
What Were Looking For:
3 years of experience as an SRE.
2 years of software development experience with a strong emphasis on automation.
3 years of experience in AWS
Experience managing and designing highthroughput systems processing millions of transactions daily.
Deep understanding of observability with handson experience implementing SLIs SLOs and error budgets.
Proficiency in Kubernetes Terraform and cloud platforms (AWS) with a focus on scalability and reliability.
Handson experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture (MSA).
Production experience with distributed tracing.
Strong software development background in Python Golang and Bash scripting.
Experience with OTEL Collectors collection sampling and customizations.
Solid understanding of SLIs SLOs and error budgets.
Handson experience with CI/CD platforms (GitOps GitLab Jenkins ArgoCD etc..
Expertise in incident management and root cause analysis.
Knowledge of modern deployment strategies (Canary BlueGreen etc..
Familiarity with resiliency patterns (circuit breakers retry mechanisms load balancing etc..
Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and understanding of distributed systems.
Proficiency in statistical analysis applied to metrics.
Experience with highperformance lowlatency systems.
Proven experience in cloud cost optimization strategies.
Containerization experience (docker k8s) onprem and cloud.
Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems.
Strong understanding of security and compliance standards within DevOps/SRE environments.
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Unlimited PTO
- Excellent medical dental and vision coverage
- Employee Equity and Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Discounts Virtual Wellness Classes and Pet Insurance And more!!
COMPENSATION RANGEThe compensation range for this role is $185000.00 $200000.00 depending on location and experience.
PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ZETA
Zeta considers applicants for employment without regard to and does not discriminate on the basis of an individuals 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.
Were committed to building a workplace culture of trust and belonging so everyone feels invited to bring their whole selves to work. We provide a forum for employees to celebrate support and advocate for one another. Learn more about our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion here:https://zetaglobal/blog/alookintozetasergs/
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Employment Type
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