Senior Analytics Engineer, Zynga
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Social game developer
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Social game developer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect the world through games.
Role
Who you are
- A bachelor degree in a quantitative field (e.g Engineering, Computer Science, Maths, Statistics or Physics)
- Advanced SQL skills, including experience with CTEs, query optimization, and large-scale data warehouses
- Advanced experience building and maintaining data pipelines in production environments, using tools such as Airflow, Docker, S3, and CI/CD workflows
- Advanced experience in Python for developing production-level data analytics solutions
- Basic to intermediate experience integrating LLMs or working with generative AI tools and workflows
- A collaborative team player who builds trust, communicates openly, and contributes to shared success
- A fast learner who is proactive and comfortable working with ambiguity
- Detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to accuracy and high-quality outcomes
- Pragmatic, with the ability to balance short-term delivery needs with long-term technical quality
Desirable
- Experience creating and maintaining dashboards in Tableau or a similar BI tool
- Background in the Mobile Gaming industry
- Background in Marketing Analytics
What the job involves
- Join our Central Analytics team to build high-quality data marts, tools, and AI-powered workflows that shape player experience and drive game growth.
- You'll work alongside talented and experienced Analytics Engineers, partnering closely with game and marketing analysts to deliver solutions that make a real difference, all using a modern, cutting-edge technical stack
- To truly make an impact, you'll need to learn quickly, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and collaborate closely within the team and with the stakeholders
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries to support, experimentation, and model feature engineering across large-scale player datasets
- Design, build, and maintain cross-game data marts, providing clean and transformed data ready for Analysts to use
- Develop scalable, reusable, and maintainable code, tools, and frameworks that can be adopted across different game teams
- Partner with game analytics teams to co-design, build, and maintain data tools and products used across multiple applications
- Build and maintain end-to-end AI pipelines to support the day to day Analysts tasks
- Share knowledge across the team by educating game analysts on coding and software engineering 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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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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