Senior Software Engineer (Data Acquisition)

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Acquisition team — one of ZoomInfo’s most strategically important engineering areas
• In this role, you will design, build, and operate the backend systems and data pipelines that acquire, transform, validate, and store large raw data sets from a wide range of sources. You will work across distributed processing, workflow orchestration, streaming and batch data flows, and cloud infrastructure
• This is a senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on technical depth, production execution, and high-quality data systems. The right candidate brings strong backend engineering fundamentals, significant pipeline experience, and the ability to turn complex data acquisition requirements into scalable systems
• Design, build, and operate large-scale data acquisition pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, enrich, and store high-volume raw data
• Architect resilient ETL/ELT workflows for batch, streaming, scheduled, and event-driven data processing
• Develop production Java services and data processing applications for ingestion, orchestration, enrichment, deduplication, and delivery
• Build and improve systems using technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Spark, Google Dataflow, DataProc, Kafka, and Pub/Sub
• Define practical approaches for schema evolution, data contracts, data validation, backfills, replayability, and idempotent processing
• Improve reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across data acquisition pipelines and services
• Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, latency, failure rates, and data quality metrics
• Work with product, data science, platform, and data quality teams to translate business needs into production-ready systems
• Contribute to technical designs, implementation plans, and system modernization efforts across Data Acquisition
• Data Acquisition is one of ZoomInfo’s biggest assets. The pipelines and services you build will directly shape the scale, accuracy, and freshness of the data that powers ZoomInfo’s products
• This role is for an engineer who wants to work on core data infrastructure, difficult production systems, and high-impact data acquisition capabilities where backend engineering and data quality are tightly connected

Benefits

• Benefits for the Best You - We want our employees and their families to thrive. In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being
• Base Pay - We attract and retain the best talent with competitive compensation that aligns with industry benchmarks and merit programs yearly for promotions and salary increases based on performance, time in role, and position to market
• Bonus - When you crush it, we like to celebrate! Bonuses are awarded annually in connection with company and individual performance
• Equity - We offer each employee a generous equity award in the form of RSUs, so they can directly feel the results and success of their hard work
• Vacation & Time Off - We know everyone’s needs are different so we offer flexible paid time off plans including an unlimited vacation option for many employees
• Hybrid Working Model - We offer flexible hybrid remote working models to promote equity, employee wellness, and work life balance

• Proven experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale
• Strong understanding of batch processing, streaming processing, data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management
• Hands-on expertise with data processing and orchestration technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc
• Deep proficiency with Java and object-oriented design
• Strong experience with streaming systems such as Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar technologies
• Experience designing ETL/ELT workflows that process large volumes of structured and semi-structured data
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems, data engineering, or distributed processing
• Ability to write clean, maintainable production code and evaluate tradeoffs in system design
• Experience with large-scale storage and query technologies such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Trino, or similar systems
• Strong understanding of APIs, integration patterns, retries, backpressure, idempotency, and operational failure modes
• Experience designing high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend services and distributed systems
• Experience with at least one cloud provider, preferably GCP
• Ability to analyze and improve pipeline performance, reliability, resource utilization, and cost
• Experience operating production services with monitoring, logging, alerting, SLIs, and incident investigation
• Hands-on experience with cloud services such as BigQuery, GCS, GKE, Dataflow, DataProc, and Pub/Sub
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into clear technical designs and implementation plans
• Pragmatic engineering judgment with the ability to balance correctness, delivery speed, maintainability, and operational risk
• Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Starburst/Trino, or similar query engines
• Experience with Kubernetes, especially GKE or EKS, for running distributed workloads
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Knowledge of data integration patterns involving CRM systems, email/calendar APIs, third-party feeds, change data capture, or external data providers
• Experience in a B2B data company, data marketplace, or data-as-a-product environment
• Expert-level experience with Apache Spark or another distributed processing framework