Remote Principal Software Engineer - Platform & Data

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; Vancouver (WA); Remote; USD 164,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive technical direction across Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management. This hands-on IC will rotate across teams, solving critical reliability, scalability, and modernization challenges while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term roadmaps.

You will work with senior leaders to design event-driven systems, improve observability, and ensure quality data processing at scale, all in a remote-friendly environment in the

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering with senior/staff-level leadership across multiple teams.
• Deep experience designing and operating backend distributed systems at scale (Java Spring Boot and/or Node.js NestJS).
• Experience building or owning integrations with CRM/marketing/data warehouse platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Snowflake).
• Ability to influence without authority by aligning teams and driving decisions across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Embed with multiple Platform Engineering teams on a rotating basis, writing production-quality code and removing blockers.
• Define and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architecture (Java Spring Boot, Node.js/NestJS, Kafka, orchestration platforms).
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for high-severity issues.
• Drive platform modernization by consolidating patterns and improving observability.
• Establish best practices for idempotency, retries, error handling, and API/webhook versioning.
• Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with leadership and product teams.
• Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and document architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and participate as a senior interviewer to raise hiring standards.

Skills

Java (Spring Boot)

Node.js (NestJS)

Technical leadership

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Google Cloud Workflows

Airflow

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive technical direction across Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management. This hands-on IC will rotate across teams, solving critical reliability, scalability, and modernization challenges while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term roadmaps.

You will work with senior leaders to design event-driven systems, improve observability, and ensure quality data processing at scale, all in a remote-friendly environment in the