Principal Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer

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About the role:

ZoomInfo is looking for a Principal Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design and scale our next-generation Self Service AI-ready enterprise data platform. This role is at the intersection of data infrastructure and AI, powering LLM chatbots, intelligent agents, and advanced analytics at enterprise scale. You'll drive architecture across the data platform, semantic layer, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and governance automation, ensuring consistent, reliable, and high-quality outcomes.

What you'll do:

• Lead the architecture of an AI-first enterprise data platform
• Build and scale MCP-driven tooling, context fabric, and semantic contracts
• Automate governance, data quality, lineage, and policy-as-code frameworks
• Implement PII classification/redaction and multi-tenant context scoping
• Ensure reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency across the platform
• Partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, and ML/AI teams on access patterns and evaluation standards
• Drive proof-of-concepts (POCs) and platform innovation initiatives
• Establish best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automated policy enforcement

Basic qualifications:

• 12+ years designing and building large-scale data platforms and distributed cloud systems
• 1+ year of experience with LLMs, RAG, search, or information retrieval systems
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Advanced SQL skills and warehouse expertise (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with microservices and data services
• Workflow orchestration (Airflow) and modeling (dbt) system setup and abstraction experience
• Batch/streaming systems design expertise: Kafka, Spark, Beam, Dataflow, EMR
• Proven background in metadata systems & governance: data contracts, catalogs, OpenLineage
• Infrastructure experience: Kubernetes, serverless (Lambda/Cloud Functions), Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Strong foundation in data security & privacy: IAM, secrets management, encryption, tenant isolation
• Expertise in MCP tool servers/clients, capability registries, and observability patterns
• Knowledge of lakehouse formats (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
• Familiarity with FinOps for AI: cost controls, token budgeting, caching strategies

About us:

ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) is the Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights, trusted data, and advanced automation. Its solutions provide more than 35,000 companies worldwide with a complete view of their customers, making every seller their best seller.

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