Principal Software Engineer

ZoomInfo is a Go-To-Market Intelligence Platform that empowers businesses to grow faster with AI-ready insights. As a Principal Engineer on the Advertising, Company Intelligence, and Intent team, you'll design and implement core systems for their real-time marketing platform, focusing on high-throughput infrastructure and intelligent systems enhanced by LLMs.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build distributed systems that process, enrich, and respond to billions of behavioral events per day in real time
• Develop high-performance APIs and services that support advertising, identity, and intent features across the Marketing Platform
• Leverage machine learning and large language models (LLMs) to analyze behavioral data, classify content, extract signals, and enable intelligent decision-making
• Build intelligent agents using frameworks like LangGraph or MCP to reason over data and power user-facing insights
• Design and operate data pipelines using tools like Kafka, Kinesis, and ClickHouse to support both streaming and batch workloads
• Drive quality, performance, scalability, and observability across all systems you own
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver customer-facing features and internal tooling
• Contribute to technical leadership and mentorship of teammates

Requirements:

• 8+ years of backend, data, or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent impact and leadership
• Strong experience in at least one of the following: Distributed systems engineering (e.g., building low latency high and throughput APIs, scalable microservices, event processing pipelines)
• Big data infrastructure (e.g., streaming, warehousing, low-latency storage at scale)
• Applied AI/ML, including use of LLMs for extraction, classification, or reasoning tasks
• Proficiency in one or more core languages: Java, Go, Python
• Solid grasp of SQL and large-scale data modeling
• Familiarity with databases and tools such as: ClickHouse, DynamoDB, Bigtable, Memcached, Kafka, Kinesis, Firehose, Airflow, Snowflake
• AI-Native Development Mindset
• Comfortable using LLMs as part of your development workflow—whether via tools like Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or others—to boost productivity, explore architecture ideas, and rapidly prototype
• Skilled at designing and implementing LLM-powered systems such as RAG pipelines, agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph), or intelligent workflows that reason across large datasets in real time
• Experience in ad tech, real-time bidding (RTB), or programmatic systems
• Background in identity resolution, attribution, or behavioral analytics at scale
• Contributions to open source in ML, infrastructure, or data tooling
• Strong product instincts and a passion for building tools that drive meaningful outcomes