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# Software Engineer III (Data)

- **Company:** ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $112,000.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Big Data, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/abc0f9bd-5840-4a6f-8954-3fd6f33305fa

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer III (Data) to join our fast-paced, collaborative data team. In this role, you will have broad authority to drive the direction of our technographic data services, building world-class data pipelines and systems to process billions of signals and data points. This is an exciting opportunity to solve challenging problems and make a big impact as we invest in making technographics a first-class offering.

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.


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