Principal Software Engineer - PA 105

Zoominfo; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a principal-level individual contributor to lead across integrations, workflow orchestration, and data management. This hands-on technical leader moves between areas of greatest need, shaping architecture and guiding teams to deliver scalable platform improvements.

You'll join platform teams, define scalable backend architectures, lead incident analysis, modernize legacy systems, and mentor engineers while documenting decisions and roadmapping future work.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with substantial senior or staff-level leadership across teams.
• Experience designing and operating distributed backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Java with Spring Boot and/or Node.js with NestJS.
• Experience building or owning integrations with CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, data warehouse, or similar platforms.
• Ability to align teams and influence decisions across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• A record of leading modernization, reliability, or observability efforts, with strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive presentations.

Responsibilities

• Join platform teams as needed, contribute production code, and unblock complex engineering work.
• Define scalable, fault-tolerant architecture for backend services and event-driven workflows.
• Lead response and root-cause analysis for major incidents and recurring reliability issues.
• Modernize legacy systems, consolidate integration patterns, and improve observability.
• Establish engineering practices for retries, idempotency, error handling, state management, API and webhook versioning, and workflow design.
• Shape longer-term roadmaps, evaluate build-versus-buy options, document architecture decisions, and mentor engineers.

Skills

Senior leadership

Distributed backend systems

Executive communication

Tools

Java with Spring Boot

Node.js with NestJS

Job description

Role overview

Act as a hands-on technical leader across teams responsible for integrations, workflow orchestration, and data management. This principal-level individual contributor moves between the areas with the greatest technical need, shaping architecture, resolving difficult reliability problems, and helping teams deliver scalable platform improvements through influence and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Join platform teams as needed, contribute production code, and unblock complex engineering work.
• Define scalable, fault-tolerant architecture for backend services and event-driven workflows.
• Lead response and root-cause analysis for major incidents and recurring reliability issues.
• Modernize legacy systems, consolidate integration patterns, and improve observability.
• Establish engineering practices for retries, idempotency, error handling, state management, API and webhook versioning, and workflow design.
• Shape longer-term roadmaps, evaluate build-versus-buy options, document architecture decisions, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• At least 12 years of software engineering experience, including substantial senior or staff-level technical leadership across teams.
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed backend systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Java with Spring Boot and/or Node.js with NestJS.
• Experience building or owning integrations with CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, data warehouse, or similar platforms.
• Ability to align teams and influence decisions across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• A record of leading modernization, reliability, or observability efforts, with strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive presentations.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kafka or other event-driven streaming systems, and workflow tools such as Temporal, Google Cloud Workflows, or Airflow.
• Knowledge of data quality practices, including deduplication, standardization, enrichment, and privacy compliance.
• Experience with API strategy, webhooks, partner integrations, or low-code workflow tools.

Benefits and work setup

The position is listed as remote. A US base salary range of $163,800–$257,400 is provided; additional compensation and benefits may apply.