Hiring: Software Engineer III - Data Acquisition Company: ZoomInfo Location: Waltham, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:05:39 Target Skills & Keywords : Airflow, Apache, BigQuery, Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, EKS, ELT, ETL, Event-Driven, GCP, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, SQL, Snowflake, Spark, Terraform About the job Experience: •3+ years of professional software engineering experience. Required Skills: •Design and build backend data pipelines that ingest, validate, normalize, enrich, and store high-volume raw data from multiple sources. •Develop ETL/ELT workflows and processing jobs using technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache Beam, Google Dataflow, DataProc, Spark, Kafka, or Pub/Sub. •Implement new features in Java-based services and data processing applications that support data acquisition at scale. •Interface directly with batch and streaming architectures for scheduled, near-real-time, and event-driven data flows. •Improve data quality through schema validation, deduplication, enrichment, monitoring, retries, and controlled backfills. •Contribute to observability for pipeline health, throughput, latency, cost, and error rates. •Partner cross-functionally with product managers, data teams, and platform teams to translate business requirements into reliable technical solutions. •Help design, plan, and execute the roadmap for next-generation data acquisition technologies. Qualifications: •Solid experience building and operating production data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, or data processing systems. •Strong proficiency with Java and object-oriented programming. •Applied hands-on capability in data processing and orchestration technologies such as Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google •Understanding of batch processing, streaming processing, data modeling, schema design, and data quality practices. •Operational familiarity with cloud data and compute services such as BigQuery, GCS, GKE, Dataflow, DataProc, and Pub/Sub. •Practical knowledge of SQL, large-scale storage/query systems, logging, monitoring, and alerting. •Demonstrated capacity to troubleshoot pipeline failures, data issues, performance bottlenecks, and operational incidents. •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Compensation: •$112,000 - $176,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •Additional compensation such as Bonus, Commission, Equity and other benefits may also apply Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!