Senior Software Engineer - Contributory Network

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Contributory Network team within Data Acquisition - one of ZoomInfo's most strategically important initiatives.

The Contributory Network is building the platform that ingests, transforms, and processes first-party data contributed by thousands of customers through their CRM, email, and recording provider integrations. This data powers a suite of intelligence products - from competitive benchmarking and buyer committee insights to predictive market timing - that are impossible to build any other way.

This role demands a driver. We need someone who takes ownership, pushes through ambiguity, unblocks themselves and others, and relentlessly moves work forward. You won't wait for perfect specs or complete clarity - you'll carve the path, make decisions, and deliver. If you thrive when given a hard problem and the autonomy to solve it, this is your role.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive the design and implementation of large-scale data pipelines that ingest, validate, transform, and enrich first-party contributed data from CRM systems, email providers, and recording platforms
• Architect resilient ETL/ELT pipelines handling massive volumes of contact data, opportunity metadata, engagement signals, and activity patterns
• Take initiative on complex technical challenges - identify problems proactively, propose solutions, and execute with urgency
• Build streaming and batch processing systems for real-time and scheduled data flows using Kafka, Pub/Sub, Apache Beam, or similar
• Establish data quality frameworks, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and completeness across contributed data
• Define and implement observability, monitoring, and alerting for pipeline health, throughput, cost, and data quality metrics
• Drive technical design decisions and guide implementations from concept to production
• Mentor and elevate other engineers on the team through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing
• Partner with product, platform, and data science teams to deliver high-impact features on tight timelines
• Influence technical direction across the Contributory Network initiative and the broader Data Acquisition organization

Must-Have Qualifications

Data Engineering & Pipelines

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on data engineering
• Proven track record of building and operating production data pipelines at scale
• Deep experience with Python and/or Java
• Hands-on expertise with data processing technologies: Apache Beam, Apache Airflow, Spark, Google Dataflow, or DataProc
• Strong experience with streaming systems (Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar)
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP (BigQuery, GKE, Dataflow)
• Solid understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and data quality management
• Experience designing and operating large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines processing terabytes of data

Technical Leadership & Drive

• Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical initiatives end to end - from scoping through delivery
• Track record of operating with high autonomy and a bias toward action
• Ability to push through ambiguity, make pragmatic decisio