Software Engineer III - Data Acquisition

The posting, as ZoomInfo wrote it

ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen fast.

We're looking for a Software Engineer III to join the Data Acquisition team - one of ZoomInfo's most strategically important
engineering areas. In this role, you will help build the systems that acquire, transform, validate, and store large raw data sets from a wide range of
sources. You will work on backend services, batch and streaming pipelines, workflow orchestration, and the next generation of large-scale data acquisition technologies. This position is focused on backend and data engineering. It requires strong hands-on experience with data pipelines, distributed
processing, Java, cloud infrastructure, and production-quality engineering practices.

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 kno

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. 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.
$112,000 — $176,000 USD

About us

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, enables sales, marketing, and customer success teams to execute their go-to-market strategy with confidence. Powered by the industry's most comprehensive B2B data, including more than 100 million companies, 500 million contacts, and billions of signals, ZoomInfo delivers the intelligence, automation, and integrations that modern revenue teams need to identify, engage, and convert their best buyers.

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