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Principal Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Posted 25 Days Ago
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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Design, build, and improve a scalable data platform while leading data engineering efforts and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet data needs.
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ZoomInfo is where careers accelerate. We move fast, think boldly, and empower you to do the best work of your life. You’ll be surrounded by teammates who care deeply, challenge each other, and celebrate wins. With tools that amplify your impact and a culture that backs your ambition, you won’t just contribute. You’ll make things happen–fast.

About the role:

ZoomInfo is looking for a Principal Data Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design and scale our next-generation Self Service AI-ready enterprise data platform. This role is at the intersection of data infrastructure and AI, powering LLM chatbots, intelligent agents, and advanced analytics at enterprise scale. You’ll drive architecture across the data platform, semantic layer, Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, and governance automation, ensuring consistent, reliable, and high-quality outcomes.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead the architecture of an AI-first enterprise data platform
  • Build and scale MCP-driven tooling, context fabric, and semantic contracts
  • Automate governance, data quality, lineage, and policy-as-code frameworks
  • Implement PII classification/redaction and multi-tenant context scoping
  • Ensure reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency across the platform
  • Partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, and ML/AI teams on access patterns and evaluation standards
  • Drive proof-of-concepts (POCs) and platform innovation initiatives
  • Establish best practices in Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automated policy enforcement

Basic qualifications:

  • 12+ years designing and building large-scale data platforms and distributed cloud systems
  • 1+ year of experience with LLMs, RAG, search, or information retrieval systems
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Advanced SQL skills and warehouse expertise (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
  • Strong programming skills in Python; experience with microservices and data services
  • Workflow orchestration (Airflow) and modeling (dbt) system setup and abstraction experience
  • Batch/streaming systems design expertise: Kafka, Spark, Beam, Dataflow, EMR
  • Proven background in metadata systems & governance: data contracts, catalogs, OpenLineage
  • Infrastructure experience: Kubernetes, serverless (Lambda/Cloud Functions), Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
  • Strong foundation in data security & privacy: IAM, secrets management, encryption, tenant isolation
  • Expertise in MCP tool servers/clients, capability registries, and observability patterns
  • Knowledge of lakehouse formats (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi)
  • Familiarity with FinOps for AI: cost controls, token budgeting, caching strategies

About us: 

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.

ZoomInfo may use a software-based assessment as part of the recruitment process. More information about this tool, including the results of the most recent bias audit, is available here.

ZoomInfo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, and does not discriminate based on protected status. We welcome all applicants and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, age, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability status, religion, protected military or veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in accordance with legal requirements.


For Massachusetts Applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. ZoomInfo does not administer lie detector tests to applicants in any location.

Top Skills

Airflow
Athena
AWS
BigQuery
Cloud Function
Dataflow
Dbt
Emr
GCP
Github Actions
Glue
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Python
Redshift
Snowflake
SQL

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