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You’ll make things happen-fast.\nWhat You'll do:\nOwn the tooling and services that power the next generation of our CI/CD pipelines-the GitOps deployment API/CLI (TypeScript/Node, NestJS), self-service deployment capabilities (ArgoCD /Helm /Cloud Run), the shared TypeScript package ecosystem (an Nx monorepo), and the ingress layer-making the calls on how these systems evolve, integrate, and stay reliable as a large share of the company depends on them, in partnership with our CI/CD team.\nLead the stabilization and strategic evolution and stabilization of these mission-critical systems; prioritize technical knowledge capture and de-risk the highest-leverage deployment paths as the platform transitions to your ownership.\nLead technical direction-golden paths, standards, and the multi-quarter roadmap-across the delivery tooling and the Go automation and intelligence platform (internal APIs, durable workflows, agentic tooling), including build-vs-buy, consolidation, and sunset calls.\nStay hands-on at the hard edges-design and build the highest-leverage, highest-risk components yourself in Go and TypeScript/Node, and set the patterns others follow.\nShape how we apply Agentic AI, MCP (Model Context Protocol), and durable workflows (Temporal) to automate the creation, upgrading, and auditing of infrastructure.\nMentor senior and mid-level engineers, raise the quality bar through design and code review, and influence partner teams-CI/CD, the embedded DevOps teams, and the org that co-owns the shared monorepo-without relying on positional authority.\nWhat you bring:\n12+ years of backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent impact and technical leadership.\nA track record of architecting and operating tooling, services, or platforms that many other teams depend on-API/contract design, versioning and backward compatibility, blast-radius management, and the judgment to keep a high-traffic system evolvable.\nStrong experience in at least one of the following:\nDelivery / GitOps tooling - ArgoCD (ideally ApplicationSets), Helm, and building deployment tooling that other engineers rely on\nBackend platform & API engineering at scale, on systems many teams build on\nProficiency in Go or TypeScript/JavaScript, with strong working ability in the other. Our delivery systems are TypeScript/Node (NestJS, in an Nx monorepo); our automation platform core is Go.\nExperience with Kubernetes (K8s), serverless runtimes (GCP Cloud Run or equivalent), and major cloud providers (GCP and AWS)\nA track record of leading a high-stakes inheritance or migration, setting direction across a team, mentoring senior engineers, and driving alignment across organizational boundaries.\nPractical experience or strong theoretical depth in Agentic AI, MCP, and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) frameworks, and a point of view on where they belong in an infrastructure platform.\nPreferred Qualification:\nExperience with durable execution (Temporal or similar) for stateful distributed workflows, and with Terraform at scale.\nExperience with multi-runtime delivery (Cloud Functions, Dataflow, Lambda) beyond Cloud Run.\nExperience co-owning a shared monorepo or platform across multiple teams or orgs.\nContributions to open-source infrastructure, CD, or developer-tooling projects.\nHelm, Argo, Istio\nActual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate’s work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range for your desired work location during the hiring process. We want our employees and their families to thrive.\nIn addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.\nBelow is the US base salary for this position. Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply.\n$163,800-$257,400 USD\nAbout us:\nZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.\nZoomInfo is committed to protecting your privacy when you apply for jobs with us. Please review our Job Applicant Privacy Notice for more details on how we handle your personal information.\nZoomInfo may use a software-based assessment as part of the recruitment process. More information about this tool, including the results of the most recent bias audit, is available here.\nZoomInfo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, and does not discriminate based on protected status. We welcome all applicants and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, age, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability status, religion, protected military or veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in accordance with legal requirements.\nFor Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. 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