Software Engineer III - PA085

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC•Waltham, MA

2d•$112,000 - $176,000•Hybrid

About The Position

ZoomInfo is looking for a Software Engineer III to join the Data Acquisition team. This role involves building systems that acquire, transform, validate, and store large raw data sets from various sources. The engineer will work on backend services, batch and streaming pipelines, workflow orchestration, and next-generation data acquisition technologies. The position is focused on backend and data engineering, requiring hands-on experience with data pipelines, distributed processing, Java, cloud infrastructure, and production-quality engineering practices.

Requirements

3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Solid experience building and operating production data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, or data processing systems.
Strong proficiency with Java and object-oriented programming.
Hands-on experience with data processing and orchestration technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc.
Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar systems.
Understanding of batch processing, streaming processing, data modeling, schema design, and data quality practices.
Experience building backend services, APIs, or distributed systems that run in production.
Experience with at least one cloud provider, preferably GCP.
Familiarity with cloud data and compute services such as BigQuery, GCS, GKE, Dataflow, DataProc, and Pub/Sub.
Practical knowledge of SQL, large-scale storage/query systems, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures, data issues, performance bottlenecks, and operational incidents.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Pragmatic engineering judgment with the ability to balance quality, speed, and business impact.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes, especially GKE or EKS, for distributed workloads.
Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Starburst/Trino, or similar data warehouses and query engines.
Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
Exposure to data integration patterns involving CRM systems, email/calendar APIs, third-party feeds, or large external datasets.
Experience in a B2B data company, data marketplace, or data-as-a-product environment.

Responsibilities

Design and build backend data pipelines that ingest, validate, normalize, enrich, and store high-volume raw data from multiple sources.
Develop ETL/ELT workflows and processing jobs using technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Google Dataflow, DataProc, Spark, Kafka, or Pub/Sub.
Implement new features in Java-based services and data processing applications that support data acquisition at scale.
Work with batch and streaming architectures for scheduled, near-real-time, and event-driven data flows.
Improve data quality through schema validation, deduplication, enrichment, monitoring, retries, and controlled backfills.
Contribute to observability for pipeline health, throughput, latency, cost, and error rates.
Collaborate with product managers, data teams, and platform teams to translate business requirements into reliable technical solutions.
Help design, plan, and execute the roadmap for next-generation data acquisition technologies.