# Software Engineer III

**Company:** [ZoomInfo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoominfo)
**Location:** Waltham, MA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $112k – $176k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Java, apache airflow, apache beam, google dataflow, dataproc, Spark, Kafka, Pub/Sub, GCP, BigQuery, gcs, GKE, SQL, Kubernetes, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-07-23

> Build and operate large-scale backend data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows for acquiring, validating, and storing high-volume business data using Java, Spark, Airflow, Beam, Kafka and GCP services. Requires 3+ years experience in production data engineering.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- 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.

## Must-Have Qualifications

### Data Engineering and Pipelines
- 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.

### Backend, Cloud, and Operations
- 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.

### General
- 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 Have
- 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.

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