Staff Backend Engineer

Zetaglobal

Bengaluru, India
On-site
Low-latency, high-throughput services
Real-time bidding systems
Java and/or go proficiency
Zeta Global is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to develop and enhance its real-time bidding and decision-making systems in Bengaluru, India. The role demands expertise in building low-latency, high-throughput services, requiring strong technical skills in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Job Summary

  • Design and build core DSP bidder components that handle high-QPS bid request ingestion, filtering, enrichment, decisioning, and bid response generation within strict time budgets.
  • Optimize p99 latency and tail behavior using timeouts, backpressure, concurrency control, efficient serialization, caching strategies, and careful memory/GC management.
  • Define SLOs and observability (metrics, tracing, structured logging), participate in on-call, and drive post-incident improvements.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

Zeta Global is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to develop and enhance its real-time bidding and decision-making systems in Bengaluru, India. The role demands expertise in building low-latency, high-throughput services, requiring strong technical skills in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • low-latency, high-throughput services
  • real-time bidding systems
  • Java and/or Go proficiency
  • distributed systems fundamentals
  • AWS production services operation
  • data stores for real-time systems
  • debugging across services

Nice-to-have

  • DSP / RTB experience
  • pacing/budgeting systems
  • ML integration in real time
  • privacy-aware systems
  • Kubernetes/service mesh familiarity
  • eBPF knowledge

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering (Senior)
  • 8+ years with demonstrated ownership (Staff)
  • Proven experience building low-latency, high-QPS services
  • Hands-on DSP / RTB experience

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