Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

ZoomInfo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Web Data team to build and operate large-scale web crawling and data extraction infrastructure. The role focuses on scalable data pipelines, distributed systems, production engineering, and collaboration with product and data science teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement components of scalable, fault-tolerant web crawling and extraction pipelines
• Write clean, production-grade code in Java and Python
• Build and operate ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data extraction and transformation
• Work with cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS, primarily on GKE
• Improve observability, reliability, and operational excellence across the systems you contribute to
• Partner with product and data science teams to deliver impactful solutions
• Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing across the team
• Stay current with evolving web technologies, anti-crawling mechanisms, and AI-powered extraction approaches

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
• Strong CS fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems
• Proficiency in Java and/or Python
• Track record of owning features end-to-end from design through deployment and operation
• Comfortable making sound architectural decisions at the component level
• Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake
• Experience designing and operating large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
• Experience with streaming or event-driven systems such as Apache Kafka
• Production experience on GCP (preferred) or AWS
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (GKE/EKS) for distributed workloads
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
• Strong communicator who can explain technical decisions clearly
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and iterating quickly
• Bias toward action and pragmatic problem solving
• Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Experience operating systems that process meaningful volumes of data
• Excellent communicator who can explain complex ideas to diverse audiences
• Passion for solving hard problems and building elegant, scalable systems
• multi-cloud exposure is a plus
• Experience with web crawling at scale (Scrapy or similar frameworks)
• Familiarity with proxy infrastructure, rotation strategies, or anti-bot evasion techniques
• Experience extracting structured and unstructured web data from diverse site architectures
• Knowledge of SERP (Search Engine Results Page) extraction
• Comfort with AI/LLM-based extraction approaches, applying language models to HTML at scale
• Experience working in a B2B data company or data-as-a-product environment
• Experience working in a B2B data company or data-as-a-product environment is a strong plus