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
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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