# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [ZoomInfo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoominfo)
**Location:** Waltham, MA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $140k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Spark, Google Dataflow, Dataproc, Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Snowflake, Trino, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Etl/Elt
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> Build and operate large-scale data acquisition pipelines, distributed processing systems, and production Java services across batch and streaming workloads. The role requires 5+ years of backend or data engineering experience, strong distributed-systems expertise, and proficiency with cloud data technologies.

## Job Description

## 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 processing.
- Develop production Java services and data-processing applications for ingestion, orchestration, enrichment, deduplication, and delivery.
- Build and improve systems using Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Spark, Google Dataflow, DataProc, Kafka, and Pub/Sub.
- Define approaches for schema evolution, data contracts, data validation, backfills, replayability, and idempotent processing.
- Improve reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across pipelines and services.
- Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, latency, failures, and data quality.
- Partner with product, data science, platform, and data quality teams to deliver production-ready systems.
- Contribute to technical designs, implementation plans, and modernization efforts.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend systems, data engineering, or distributed processing.
- Experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale.
- Deep proficiency with Java and object-oriented design.
- Hands-on expertise with Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc.
- Strong experience with streaming systems such as Apache Kafka or Google Pub/Sub.
- Understanding of batch and streaming processing, data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management.
- Experience designing ETL/ELT workflows for large structured and semi-structured datasets.
- Experience designing high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend services and distributed systems.
- Understanding of APIs, integration patterns, retries, backpressure, idempotency, and operational failure modes.
- Experience with large-scale storage and query technologies such as BigQuery, Snowflake, or Trino.
- Experience with a cloud provider, preferably Google Cloud.
- Experience operating production services with monitoring, logging, alerting, SLIs, and incident investigation.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to translate business and data requirements into technical designs and implementation plans.

## Nice to Have
- Kubernetes experience, especially GKE or EKS.
- Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Starburst/Trino, or similar query engines.
- Knowledge of integrations involving CRM systems, email/calendar APIs, third-party feeds, change data capture, or external data providers.
- Experience in a B2B data company, data marketplace, or data-as-a-product environment.
- Expert-level experience with Apache Spark or another distributed processing framework.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $140,000–$220,000 USD.
- Additional compensation such as bonus, commission, equity, and benefits may apply.
- Comprehensive benefits and mind, body, and lifestyle well-being programs.

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