Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer - Web Crawling & ETL

ZoomInfo; Bethesda (MD); Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Data team to help build the next generation of web crawling and data extraction infrastructure.

This hands-on role will tackle distributed systems challenges, write production code in Java and Python, and ship features that improve data quality at scale. You’ll collaborate with a product manager and a people manager to drive execution and career growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong CS fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java and/or Python.
• Experience owning features end-to-end from design through deployment and operation.
• Comfortable making sound architectural decisions at the component level.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant web crawling and extraction pipelines.
• Write clean, production-grade code in Java and Python.
• Build and operate ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data extraction and transformation.
• Work with cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS, primarily on GKE.
• Improve observability, reliability, and operational excellence across the systems you contribute to.
• Partner with product and data science teams to deliver impactful solutions.
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Stay current with evolving web technologies, anti-crawling mechanisms, and AI-powered extraction approaches.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Big data

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Airflow

Kafka

Code reviews

Tools

Apache Kafka

Airflow

Terraform

Kubernetes

BigQuery

Snowflake

GKE

EKS

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Web Data team to help build the next generation of web crawling and data extraction infrastructure.

This hands-on role will tackle distributed systems challenges, write production code in Java and Python, and ship features that improve data quality at scale. You’ll collaborate with a product manager and a people manager to drive execution and career growth.