Senior Software Engineer

Level Up Your Career with Zynga!

At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.

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Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level.

Join us and be part of the play!

Position Overview

We are seeking expert and hardworking engineers to join our collaborative and innovative team. Zynga’s mission is to “Connect the World through Games” by building a truly social experience that makes the world a better place. The ideal candidate needs to have a strong focus on building high-quality, maintainable software that has global impact.

The Analytics Engineering team is responsible for all things data at Zynga. We own the full game and player data pipeline - from ingestion to storage to driving insights and analytics. A Senior Software Engineer looks after the software design and development of quality services and products to support the Analytics needs of our games. In this role, you will be part of our Analytics Engineering group focusing on sophisticated technology developments for building scalable data infrastructure and end-to-end services which can be used by the various games. We are a 120+ organization servicing 1500 others across 13 global locations.

What You'll Do

Build and operate a multi PB-scale data platform.

• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/improvements to systems and data pipelines (ETLs) while adhering to the SLOs.
• Follow engineering best methodologies towards ensuring performance, reliability, scalability, and observability of the code.
• Collaborate with other Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and other collaborators, taking on learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
• Support the professional growth of junior engineers.
• Contribute to and promote sustainable engineering practices by incorporating best practices, producing outstanding code, documentation, testing and monitoring.
  
  

What You Bring

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 5 years of strong data engineering design/development experience in building large-scale, distributed data platforms/products.
• Advanced coding expertise in SQL & Python/JVM-based language.
• Exposure to heterogeneous data storage systems like relational, NoSQL, in-memory etc.
• Knowledge of data modeling, lineage, data access and its governance.
• Proficient in AWS services like Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda, RDS, EKS/ECS, S3 etc.
• Exposure to open source software, frameworks and broader groundbreaking technologies (Airflow, Kafka, DataHub etc).
• Familiar with infrastructure provisioning, deployment, observability tools like Terraform, DataDog etc.
• Proven track record to deliver work on time with attention to quality.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and ability to work effectively in a geographically distributed team environment.
  
  

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement. Your unique perspective and experience could be exactly what we’re looking for.

What We Offer You

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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