Senior Cloud Engineer, Zynga
Developer Services, ZMGT
+ Bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Social game developer
Job no longer available
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for fresh perspectives and eager candidates to grow within our team. A BS/CS, 1-2 years in a professional Developer / Operations / Administration role or equivalent experience would be an excellent fit
- Experience working on Linux VMs and Containers hosted in Cloud providers is a plus!
- Have experience coding infrastructure orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, Terraform, and Cloudformation? We love that
- Desired experience automating processes via command line tools like AWS CLI to replace GUI operations
- Desired experience working in small teams / startup environments
- Candidates practiced in software development processes are highly valued
- Must have experience working within a commercial cloud environment such as AWS or relevant Cloud Certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or DevOps Engineer)
- Must have practical experience with Enterprise Linux environments, development, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, debugging, and orchestration patterns. (RHCSA or equivalent experience)
- Must have strong English written and verbal skills. You are encouraged to engage with customers over video conferencing, ticketing systems, and chat. You thrive writing clear procedural instructions (Runbooks), conceptual overviews (Architecture), and implementation guides
- You provide phenomenal customer service and can communicate appropriately with different roles in a company (team members, vs customer engineers and customer producers, etc.)
What the job involves
- The Cloud Engineer will be a member of Zynga’s Developer Services vertical, in a team responsible for maintaining various internal facing tools across the brand
- We specialize in propagating standard methodologies across all backend engineering teams
- Our team collaborates closely with every major mobile studio at Zynga!
- We prototype and test new in-house & vendor-supplied tools, managed-services, deployment and application frameworks. Consult on their relative feature sets, performance and applicability to various product teams
- Cloud Engineering members build, document, maintain, and support tools that can be used across the company for infrastructure-related tasks and tech modernization
- We partner with other business units to convert manual business workflows and requirements into application code
- Our team works with studio partners to upgrade their code for updated OS and application stacks
- The entire team participates in crafting playbooks and helping other studios during on-call
- We administer roles, policies and network resources in a multi-account/cloud environment. Tier one support for related change requests
- We assist other teams in vetting application development standard methodologies and security guidelines
Our take
Zynga is a games developer that rode Facebook's platform to success back in the late noughties and early 2010's. It is now one of the biggest casual game producers globally, with a presence across over 170 countries and regions and millions of monthly active users.
Though the company hit a number of roadblocks after its initial success - such as falling stock prices, and numerous calls it was copying other games - its subsequent resurgence is proof of its staying power. It continues to use social media as a distribution channel, and boasts titles such as FarmVille, Merge Dragons! and Words With Friends.
Future success will lie in the company's continued investment in building viral games that people love. It will also need to attune to the social media waves and keep track of where users can be found, as the landscape has become more mobile. In 2024 the company announced it was developing push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application, which will be an interesting addition to its outputs.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2011
$490m
SERIES C
Oct 2010
$6.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $865.5m
Company benefits
- COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
- HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
- FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies
- WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
- FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
- WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
- TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
- RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mark Pincus
(Chairman & Co-founder)Previously founder and CEO of Freeloader, Supportsoft and Tribe.net, an early social network
Michael Luxton
(Co-founder)Previously an engineer at NetApp
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