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We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen-fast.\nThe Opportunity\nWe're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Acquisition team - one of ZoomInfo's most strategically important engineering areas.\nIn 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.\nThis 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, build, and operate large-scale data acquisition pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, enrich, and store high-volume raw data.\nArchitect resilient ETL/ELT workflows for batch, streaming, scheduled, and event-driven data processing.\nDevelop production Java services and data processing applications for ingestion, orchestration, enrichment, deduplication, and delivery.\nBuild and improve systems using technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Spark, Google Dataflow, DataProc, Kafka, and Pub/Sub.\nDefine practical approaches for schema evolution, data contracts, data validation, backfills, replayability, and idempotent processing.\nImprove reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across data acquisition pipelines and services.\nImplement observability, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, latency, failure rates, and data quality metrics.\nWork with product, data science, platform, and data quality teams to translate business needs into production-ready systems.\nContribute to technical designs, implementation plans, and system modernization efforts across Data Acquisition.\nMust-Have Qualifications\nData Engineering and Pipelines\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems, data engineering, or distributed processing.\nProven experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale.\nDeep proficiency with Java and object-oriented design.\nHands-on expertise with data processing and orchestration technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc.\nStrong experience with streaming systems such as Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.\nStrong understanding of batch processing, streaming processing, data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management.\nExperience designing ETL/ELT workflows that process large volumes of structured and semi-structured data.\nBackend and Distributed Systems\nExperience designing high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend services and distributed systems.\nStrong understanding of APIs, integration patterns, retries, backpressure, idempotency, and operational failure modes.\nAbility to write clean, maintainable production code and evaluate tradeoffs in system design.\nExperience with large-scale storage and query technologies such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Trino, or similar systems.\nCloud and Operations\nExperience with at least one cloud provider, preferably GCP.\nHands-on experience with cloud services such as BigQuery, GCS, GKE, Dataflow, DataProc, and Pub/Sub.\nExperience operating production services with monitoring, logging, alerting, SLIs, and incident investigation.\nAbility to analyze and improve pipeline performance, reliability, resource utilization, and cost.\nGeneral\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.\nAbility to translate business and data requirements into clear technical designs and implementation plans.\nPragmatic engineering judgment with the ability to balance correctness, delivery speed, maintainability, and operational risk.\nNice to Have\nExperience with Kubernetes, especially GKE or EKS, for running distributed workloads.\nExperience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.\nExperience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Starburst/Trino, or similar query engines.\nKnowledge of data integration patterns involving CRM systems, email/calendar APIs, third-party feeds, change data capture, or external data providers.\nExperience in a B2B data company, data marketplace, or data-as-a-product environment.\nExpert-level experience with Apache Spark or another distributed processing framework.\nWhy This Role Matters\nData 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.\nThis 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.\n#LI-AR2 #LI-Hybrid\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$140,000—$220,000 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. 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