Principle Software Engineer, Zynga
CA$119.1-169.1k
Salary in CAD and may vary in further locations
Social game developer
Be an early applicant
Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$119.1-169.1k
Salary in CAD and may vary in further locations
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
- Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling (pandas, NumPy), and ability to work with source code via pull requests, CICD pipelines, etc
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with the following: SQL, data warehouses, Tableau or similar data visualization tools
- Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality within data pipelines
- Experience collaborating with customers to assess their analysis and visualization needs and design solutions that present the data effectively and clearly
- Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the target audience's needs
- Comfort interacting with stakeholders at a much more senior level, ability to adjust communication style to the audience
- Experience working autonomously and capable of tackling solo projects with ease
Desirable
- Familiarity with FinOps practices
- Familiarity with financial concepts related to budgeting, forecasts, amortization, etc
- Previous experience with software engineering platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Datadog
What the job involves
- Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech!
- Do you love developing data models and visualizations to help teams make strategic decisions?
- This analyst role is a key figure in our cost transparency efforts on the FinOps team, delivering critical insights into service costs
- This position also provides dashboards, data visualizations, and analyses for areas that make our org effective at serving our internal customers, allowing all teams to make better decisions
- Lead financial analysis activities with regards to internal cost allocations for technology spend
- Lead data model design and data analysis aspects of the FinOps team’s software development, including close collaboration with other FinOps software engineers
- Engage with customers and stakeholders to design and iterate upon user-facing data visualizations
- Develop data ingestion and normalization to serve data visualizations and dashboards, as well as owning maintenance and ensuring ongoing data quality
- Support FinOps guidelines and work with other teams and partners to implement cost analysis and optimizations for technology spend across Zynga
- Interact with members of Finance and the C-suite with regards to technology cost allocations, forecasts, and ad hoc FinOps-related requests
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.
Freddie
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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