Principal Software Engineer - PA 105
US-CA · USD 163,800-257,400 · 12+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 12+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- US-CA
- Salary
- USD 163,800-257,400 · OTE
About ZoomInfo
- 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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About the role
- ZoomInfo is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical force multiplier across three pillars of the Platform Engineering organization: Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management.
- This is a hands-on, high-impact individual contributor role where you will embed with teams on a rotating basis to write production-quality code and unblock complex technical problems.
- You will lead through influence, set technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and collaborate with product and engineering leaders to deliver well-architected solutions.
Responsibilities
- Embed with Integrations, Workflows & Orchestration, and Data Management teams on a rotating basis, writing production-quality code and unblocking the hardest technical problems.
- Define and evolve scalable, fault-tolerant, event-driven architecture on Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/NestJS, Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or Google Cloud Workflows.
- Lead response and root-cause analysis for high-severity incidents and systemic reliability issues.
- Drive platform modernization by consolidating integration patterns, re-architecting legacy systems, and improving observability.
- Establish best practices for idempotency, retries, error handling, state management, API and webhook versioning, and workflow design.
- Shape multi-quarter roadmaps with the Senior Director, Engineering Managers, and Product, bringing technical feasibility, sizing, and risk into prioritization.
- Lead build-vs-buy evaluations and author architecture decision records and design docs that guide teams over multiple quarters.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and serve as a senior interviewer to raise the hiring bar.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in senior or staff-level roles, with a track record of technical leadership across multiple teams.
- Deep experience designing and operating backend distributed systems at scale, with strong proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) and/or Node.js (NestJS).
- Experience building or owning integrations or connectors with CRM, marketing automation, sales engagement, or data warehouse platforms (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Snowflake, or similar).
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority by aligning teams, driving decisions, and earning trust across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Strong track record leading platform modernization, reliability, and observability initiatives, with excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to executive leadership.
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka, and workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Google Cloud Workflows, or Airflow.
- Working knowledge of data quality practices: deduplication, standardization, enrichment, and GDPR/CCPA compliance.
- Experience with API strategy, webhooks, partner/ISV integration programs, and no-code/low-code workflow builders.
- Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP), build-vs-buy evaluations, vendor management, and SaaS cost optimization.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Variable compensation
- Bonus
- Commission
- Equity
- Holistic mind, body and lifestyle programs designed for overall well-being
Workplace
- Remote position.
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Kafka
- Temporal
- Google Cloud Workflows
- Airflow
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Marketo
- Snowflake
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- AWS
- GCP
