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Principal Software Engineer

ZoomInfo
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 May 2025
💰 $247,280/yr($179,840/yr$247,280/yr)

About the role

At ZoomInfo, we encourage creativity, value innovation, demand teamwork, expect accountability and cherish results. We value your take charge, take initiative, get stuff done attitude and will help you unlock your growth potential. One great choice can change everything. Thrive with us at ZoomInfo.

We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Engineer to join our fast-paced, collaborative data team. In this role, you will have broad authority to drive the direction of our technographic data services, building world-class data pipelines and systems to process billions of signals and data points. This is an exciting opportunity to solve challenging problems and make a big impact as we invest in making technographics a first-class offering.

What You’ll Do:

  • 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.

What You Bring:

  • 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.

  • Experience with entity recognition and NLP techniques is a plus.

  • Proven track record of 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.

Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering roles.

  • Experience working with very large datasets and distributed systems.

  • Familiarity with building data pipelines at large tech companies or data-driven organizations.

  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

Why Join Us:

This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of building out a critical new data capability. You’ll have significant impact and autonomy to shape the future of technographics at a rapidly growing company. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and the chance to work with talented people on a disruptive product.

Join us and help take our data and insights to the next level!

 

The US base salary range for this position is $179,840 - $247,280 + variable compensation + benefits.

Actual 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. In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.

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Actual 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.

In addition to comprehensive benefits we offer holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being. Learn more about ZoomInfo benefits here.

Below is the US base salary for this position. Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply.$179,840$247,280 USD

About us: 

ZoomInfo (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

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