Principal Platform Engineer, Integrations & Data

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; California; Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical force multiplier across three pillars of our Platform Engineering organization: Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management. You will embed with teams on a rotating basis, writing production-quality code and guiding architecture decisions that scale and improve reliability.

You will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and collaborate with Engineering Leaders, Product, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with leadership across multiple teams.
• Deep experience designing backend distributed systems at scale with Java Spring Boot or Node.js NestJS.
• Experience building or owning integrations with CRM/marketing automation/data warehouse platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Snowflake).
• Ability to influence without authority and align teams across engineering, product, and business.
• Track record in platform modernization, reliability, and observability with strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management teams on a rotating basis, writing production-quality code and unblocking the hardest technical problems
• Define and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architecture on Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/NestJS, Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or Google Cloud Workflows
• Lead response and root-cause analysis for high-severity incidents and systemic reliability issues
• Drive platform modernization by consolidating integration patterns, re-architecting legacy systems, and improving observability
• Establish best practices for idempotency, retries, error handling, state management, API and webhook versioning, and workflow design
• Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with the Senior Director, Engineering Managers, and Product, bringing technical feasibility, sizing, and risk into prioritization
• Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and author architecture decision records and design docs that guide teams over multiple quarters
• Mentor engineers at all levels and serve as a senior interviewer to raise the hiring bar

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems design

Java (Spring Boot)

Node.js (NestJS)

CRM/Marketing integrations

Communication

Tools

Java (Spring Boot)

Node.js (NestJS)

Kafka

Temporal

Google Cloud Workflows

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical force multiplier across three pillars of our Platform Engineering organization: Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management. You will embed with teams on a rotating basis, writing production-quality code and guiding architecture decisions that scale and improve reliability.

You will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and collaborate with Engineering Leaders, Product, and