Principal Software Engineer - Data

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Data) to lead the direction of its technographic data services. The role builds and scales data pipelines and systems, integrates machine learning workflows, and drives technical strategy for data processing infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Build and optimize big data pipelines to extract and process signals from the web, job postings, and other sources
• Design and implement data architectures and storage solutions to efficiently handle massive data volumes
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to support and integrate ML models into data workflows
• Continuously improve data quality, performance, and scalability of our technographic data platform
• Drive technical strategy and roadmap for the data processing infrastructure

Requirements:

• Extensive experience building and scaling big data pipelines and architectures from scratch
• Deep expertise in big data frameworks (Hadoop, Spark) and the JVM stack (Java, Scala)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to write efficient, high-quality code
• Proven track record delivering results and driving projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work with data scientists, analysts and product teams
• Passion for leveraging huge datasets to power valuable insights
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering roles
• Experience working with very large datasets and distributed systems
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
• Experience with entity recognition and NLP techniques a plus
• Familiarity building data pipelines at large tech companies or data-driven organizations