Senior Cloud Engineer, Zynga
Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- BS/IS with 4 years in a professional Developer/Operations/Administration role or equivalent experience
- Customer service approach, understanding customer needs and ensuring actions are in their best interests
- Scientific and engineering approach with skills in problem-solving through research, hypothesis, testing, and analysis
- Practical experience with Enterprise Linux environments, development, deployment, maintenance, OS/Application monitoring, debugging, and orchestration patterns
- Professional experience building Linux VMs hosted in Cloud Providers, both manually and using automation tools
- Expertise in coding infrastructure orchestration tools like Puppet, Chef, Terraform, and Cloudformation
- Proven experience deploying, configuring, recovering, and maintaining common AWS compute, access management, and storage products
- Proficiency in automating processes via command line tools like BASH, AWS CLI
- Experience writing monitoring tools, formal application development, or serverless functions in a professional environment
- Strong English written and verbal skills, with the ability to engage with customers and provide clear procedural instructions, conceptual overviews, and implementation guides
What the job involves
- Join Zynga's Systems team as a Senior Cloud Engineer, where you will work with a dedicated group responsible for improving a variety of internal tools
- We aim to share standard methodologies across all backend engineering teams and collaborate closely with every major mobile studio at Zynga
- This exciting role, available from April 3, 2025, provides an outstanding chance to excel in a fast-paced environment and implement innovative solutions
- Prototype and test new in-house and vendor-supplied tools, managed services, deployment, and application frameworks
- Consult on the feature sets, performance, and applicability of tools to various product teams
- Develop, document, and maintain infrastructure tools to support tech modernization
- Define critical metrics for security, efficiency, and modernization, and build processes to assist users in their improvement
- Convert manual business workflows and requirements into application code in partnership with other business units
- Upgrade code for updated OS and application stacks in collaboration with studio partners
- Participate in crafting playbooks and assist other studios during on-call
- Manage roles, policies, and network resources in a multi-account/cloud environment, offering Tier 1 support for related changes
- Review standard methodologies for application development and security guidelines
- Develop, maintain, and operate high availability services for fleet management, security tooling, configuration management, and storage
- Automate repetitive support tasks to reduce manual intervention, lower support hours, and decrease overall support costs
Application process
- Role available from April 3, 2025
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 175 countries and regions and over 80 million 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. Notable recent activity includes a collaboration with BBC Earth ahead of 2024's Earth day, and grant to develop actionable push notifications that enable gameplay without entering the application.
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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)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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