Senior Software Engineer

• Own and drive the design and implementation of large-scale data pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, and enrich first-party contributed data from CRM systems, email providers, and recording platforms
• Architect resilient ETL/ELT pipelines handling massive volumes of contact data, opportunity metadata, engagement signals, and activity patterns
• Take initiative on complex technical challenges - identify problems proactively, propose solutions, and execute with urgency
• Build streaming and batch processing systems for real-time and scheduled data flows using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Apache Beam, or similar
• Establish data quality frameworks, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and completeness across contributed data
• Define and implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, cost, and data quality metrics
• Drive technical design decisions and guide implementations from concept to production
• Mentor and elevate other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
• Partner with product, platform, and data science teams to deliver high-impact features on tight timelines
• Influence technical direction across the Contributory Network initiative and the broader Data Acquisition organization

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on data engineering
• Proven track record of building and operating production data pipelines at scale
• Deep experience with Python and/or Java
• Hands-on expertise with data processing technologies: Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc
• Strong experience with streaming systems (Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar)
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP (BigQuery, GKE, Dataflow)
• Solid understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management
• Experience designing and operating large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines processing terabytes of data

Technical Leadership & Drive

• Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical initiatives end to end - from scoping through delivery
• Track record of operating with high autonomy and a bias toward action
• Ability to push through ambiguity, make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty, and unblock progress
• Experience influencing technical direction within a team or across teams
• Strong code review and technical mentorship skills
• Proven ability to balance quality with velocity - you ship, iterate, and improve

General

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build productive cross-departmental relationships
• Strong communicator who can explain complex systems to diverse audiences
• Entrepreneurial mindset - comfortable pioneering new capabilities and wearing multiple hats, * Experience with Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) for running distributed workloads
• Familiarity with multi-cloud environments (GCP + AWS)
• Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Starburst/Trino, or similar query engines
• Experience with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code
• Knowledge of data integration patterns with CRM systems, email providers, or recording platforms
• Exposure to AI/LLM-based data processing approaches
• Experience in a B2B data company or data-as-a-product environment
• Experience with Apache Spark at expert level

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Contributory Network team within Data Acquisition - one of ZoomInfo's most strategically important initiatives. The Contributory Network is building the platform that ingests, transforms, and processes first-party data contributed by thousands of customers through their CRM, email, and recording provider integrations. This data powers a suite of intelligence products - from competitive benchmarking and buyer committee insights to predictive market timing - that are impossible to build any other way. This role demands a driver. We need someone who takes ownership, pushes through ambiguity, unblocks themselves and others, and relentlessly moves work forward. You won't wait for perfect specs or complete clarity - you'll carve the path, make decisions, and deliver. If you thrive when given a hard problem and the autonomy to solve it, this is your role.