Remote Principal Software Engineer, Platform & Data Systems

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; United States; Remote; USD 164,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to act as a senior force multiplier across Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management within Platform Engineering. You will lead through influence, embed with rotating teams, and drive architecture decisions for scalable, reliable systems.

You will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and collaborate with Engineering Leaders and Product to turn ambiguity into well-architected solutions while mentoring engineers

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with senior/staff level leadership across multiple teams.
• Extensive experience designing and operating backend distributed systems at scale (Java Spring Boot or Node.js NestJS).
• Experience building or owning integrations or connectors with CRM/marketing automation/data warehouse platforms.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and align teams across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Strong track record in platform modernization, reliability, and observability with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Embed with multiple platform teams on a rotating basis, delivering production-quality code and removing blockers.
• Define and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures using Java Spring Boot, Node.js, Kafka, and workflow platforms.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis for high-severity issues.
• Drive modernization by consolidating patterns, re-architecting legacy systems, and improving observability.
• Establish best practices for retries, idempotency, error handling, and versioning.
• Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with leadership and product to balance feasibility, sizing, and risk.
• Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and document architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and participate in senior-level hiring.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Influencing without authority

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Java (Spring Boot)

Node.js (NestJS)

Kafka

Temporal

Google Cloud Workflows

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to act as a senior force multiplier across Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management within Platform Engineering. You will lead through influence, embed with rotating teams, and drive architecture decisions for scalable, reliable systems.

You will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and collaborate with Engineering Leaders and Product to turn ambiguity into well-architected solutions while mentoring engineers