# Software Engineer III

**Company:** [ZoomInfo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoominfo)
**Location:** Bethesda, MD, Waltham, MA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $112k – $176k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Spark, Hadoop, Java, Scala, Big Data Pipelines, Distributed Systems, NLP, Entity Recognition, Data Architectures, Ml Models
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Builds and optimizes big data pipelines processing billions of signals for technographic data services. Requires 5+ years experience with Spark, Hadoop, Java/Scala, and distributed systems; collaborates with data scientists on ML integration.

## Job Description

## 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 We're Looking For

- 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 a plus
- 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

## Ideal Background

- 5+ years of experience in software engineering roles
- Experience working with very large datasets and distributed systems
- Familiarity building data pipelines at large tech companies or data-driven organizations
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

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