Principal Data Engineer

ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You'll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won't just contribute. You'll make things happen–fast.

Zoominfo is a rapidly growing data-driven company, and as such- we understand the importance of a comprehensive and solid data solution to support decision making in our organization.

Our vision is to have a consistent, democratized, and accessible single source of truth for all company data analytics and reporting.

Our goal is to improve decision-making processes by having the right information available when it is needed.

As a Principal Software Engineer in our Data Platform infrastructure team you'll have a key role in building and designing the strategy of our Enterprise Data Engineering group.

What You'll do:

• Design and build a highly scalable data platform to support data pipelines for diversified and complex data flows.
• Track and identify relevant new technologies in the market and push their implementation into our pipelines through research and POC activities.
• Deliver scalable, reliable and reusable data solutions.
• Leading, building and continuously improving our data gathering, modeling, reporting capabilities and self-service data platforms.
• Working closely with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Product Owners, and Domain Experts to identify data needs.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor, analyze, maintain and improve data operation, performance and usability.

What you bring:

• Relevant Bachelor degree or other equivalent Software Engineering background.
• 12+ years of experience as an infrastructure / data platform / big data software engineer.
• Experience with AWS/GCP cloud services such as GCS/S3, Lambda/Cloud Function, EMR/Dataproc, Glue/Dataflow, Athena.
• IaC design and hands-on experience. 
• Familiarity designing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Github Actions, or similar tools.
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining enterprise systems in a big data environment on public cloud.
• Strong SQL abilities and hands-on experience with SQL, performing analysis and performance optimizations.
• Hands-on experience in Python or equivalent programming language.
• Experience with administering data warehouse solutions (like Bigquery/ Redshift/ Snowflake).
• Experience with data modeling, data catalog concepts, data formats, data pipelines/ETL design, implementation and maintenance.
• Experience with Airflow and DBT - advantage
• Experience with Kubernetes using GKE or EKS - advantage..
• Experience with development practices – Agile, TDD - advantage.

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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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ZoomInfo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, and does not discriminate based on protected status. We welcome all applicants and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, age, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability status, religion, protected military or veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in accordance with legal requirements.

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