# Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition Team

**Company**: ZoomInfo
**Location**: Waltham, Massachusetts
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Acquisition team at ZoomInfo. 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.

Responsibilities:

- 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.

Must-Have Qualifications:

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems, data engineering, or distributed processing.

- Proven experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale.

- Deep proficiency with Java and object-oriented design.

- Hands-on expertise with data processing and orchestration technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc.

- Strong experience with streaming systems such as Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.

- Strong understanding of batch processing, streaming processing, data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits

- Holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Apache Beam
- Apache Airflow
- Spark
- Google Dataflow
- DataProc
- Kafka
- Pub/Sub
- ETL/ELT
- data engineering
- distributed processing
- backend systems

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Starburst/Trino

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