FinOps Architect, Zynga
CA$156.1-206.1k
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$156.1-206.1k
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)
- Experience serving as a technical leader in an enterprise (collaboration with 50+ teams)
- Experience collaborating with customers across many teams and levels within an enterprise
- Experience serving as a mentor to other engineers
- Experience leading projects from the ground up, breaking work into logical components, and delegating tasks
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming (preferably Python)
- Hands-on experience with SQL tables and SQL queries
- Hands-on experience developing APIs, UIs, and data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing
- Strong collaborative approach
Desirable
- Previous experience with FinOps practices and cost management analysis
What the job involves
- Come join our team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech (MGT)
- Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction, crafting and implementing backend services for our games
- We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for technology and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths
- This unique position will challenge you to tackle situations across a broad set of technical stacks, to soak up internal business logic from all kinds of teams, and to drive cost efficiency improvements across the organization
- This FinOps team expands beyond just AWS and GCP and investigates cost optimization and unit economics for a variety of technology vendors
- Lead all technical aspects of the FinOps team’s software development and data analysis, including mentorship of software and cloud engineers
- Stay up-to-date on changes within Cloud Hosting Providers (AWS) and other vendor software (Unity, Splunk, Datadog, Jetbrains, etc) to identify new cost savings opportunities for the organization
- Propose and design new FinOps tooling using a wide array of patterns: Data Pipeline, API, Cron jobs, Slack bot, UI, SQL, NoSQL, Tableau
- Assist Product Management with prioritizing endeavors based upon organization impact, estimated cost reduction, and level of effort
- Assist Data Analysts with designing SQL tables and using Tableau effectively for accurate data analysis
- Coordinate with team members across the enterprise to ensure cost optimization and cost transparency initiatives are effective and valuable
- Partner with engineering, finance, and business teams to resolve ad hoc FinOps inquiries, provide actionable insights, and drive data-informed cost optimization decisions
- Serve as a technical advisor to internal customers and stakeholders, addressing complex FinOps-related questions and providing guidance on cloud cost optimization, architecture decisions, and best practices
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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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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