Senior Data Acquisition Engineer: Backend & Pipelines

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; Waltham (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition team to design, build, and operate backend data pipelines and systems at scale. You will transform raw data from diverse sources into reliable, high-quality data assets powering ZoomInfo’s products.

The role emphasizes production-grade software, strong Java expertise, and deep experience with ETL/ELT workflows, batch and streaming processing, and data quality. Hybrid work model and US-based compensation are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems, data engineering, or distributed processing.
• Proven experience building and operating production data pipelines at scale.
• Deep proficiency with Java and object-oriented design.
• Hands-on expertise with data processing and orchestration technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc.
• Strong experience with streaming systems such as Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of batch processing, streaming processing, data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management.
• Experience designing ETL/ELT workflows that process large volumes of structured and semi-structured data.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale data acquisition pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, enrich, and store high-volume raw data.
• Architect resilient ETL/ELT workflows for batch, streaming, scheduled, and event-driven data processing.
• Develop production Java services and data processing applications for ingestion, orchestration, enrichment, deduplication, and delivery.
• Build and improve systems using technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Spark, Google Dataflow, DataProc, Kafka, and Pub/Sub.
• Define practical approaches for schema evolution, data contracts, data validation, backfills, replayability, and idempotent processing.
• Improve reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across data acquisition pipelines and services.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, latency, failure rates, and data quality metrics.
• Work with product, data science, platform, and data quality teams to translate business needs into production-ready systems.
• Contribute to technical designs, implementation plans, and system modernization efforts across Data Acquisition.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data pipelines

Distributed processing

Java

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Beam

Apache Airflow

Spark

Google Dataflow

DataProc

Kafka

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Snowflake

Trino

Kubernetes

GKE

Terraform

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Data Acquisition team to design, build, and operate backend data pipelines and systems at scale. You will transform raw data from diverse sources into reliable, high-quality data assets powering ZoomInfo’s products.

The role emphasizes production-grade software, strong Java expertise, and deep experience with ETL/ELT workflows, batch and streaming processing, and data quality. Hybrid work model and US-based compensation are offered.