Principal Software Engineer - Developer Services, ZMGT

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • DevOps

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Principal Software Engineer at Zynga's Zynga Mobile Game Tech, you'll design, deploy, and maintain centralized build & release pipelines for mobile game development. This involves managing CI/CD platforms, build farms, SCM systems, and code review tools. You'll mentor junior engineers, ensure infrastructure security and integrity, and collaborate with game teams to meet their workflow needs. Responsibilities include automating project delivery, establishing performance metrics, improving system architecture, and resolving deployment issues. Strong full-stack programming, Python development, and cloud computing experience (AWS preferred) are essential.
Must have:
  • 8+ years full-stack software programming
  • 5+ years Python application development
  • Experience with cloud computing (AWS)
  • Design, deploy and maintain CI/CD infrastructure
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Ensure infrastructure security and integrity
Good to have:
  • C+/C# programming
  • Terraform/Ansible experience
  • Jenkins CI/CD experience
  • Datadog/Splunk monitoring
  • Docker/Kubernetes experience
  • Secrets management experience
  • Unity/Unreal game development

Job Details

Who We Are:

Zynga is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 6 billion times on mobile, including Star Wars™: Hunters, CSR Racing™, Dragon City, Empires & Puzzles™, FarmVille™, Golf Rival™, Hair Challenge™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, High Heels!™, Merge Dragons!™, Merge Magic!™, Monster Legends, Toon Blast™, Top Eleven, Toy Blast™, Two Dots, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™.Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog

Position Overview:

Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Zynga Mobile Game Tech! We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to design, deploy and maintain centralized build & release pipelines that provide teammates with fresh mobile builds to increase their productivity. You will work closely with other incredible professionals inside game teams and your solutions will empower the workflow of their processes.

What You'll Do:

  • Design, deploy and maintain centralized build & release engineering infrastructure, including CICD platforms, build farms, SCM systems, package management, and code review tools
  • Mentor junior engineers in software development and infrastructure design
  • Ensure the automation and delivery of required projects
  • Verify the security and integrity of the infrastructure
  • Maintain crucial skills in modern technology/standards and use automation whenever possible
  • Establish testing and reporting methods that drive critical metrics for system performance
  • Communicate with internal customers and game teams to understand system requirements
  • Propose improvements to system architecture and drive automation efforts
  • Update and maintain documentation/runbooks
  • Root cause and resolve problems with automated systems and deployments

What You Bring:

  • B.S. or equivalent experience in Computer Science,
  • Motivated, not afraid of learning new technologies
  • Track record of experience as a technical leader and serving as a mentor to other engineers
  • Track record of successfully designing and implementing projects with minimal guidance and consistent delivery
  • Track record of leading projects from ground up, demonstrating proficiency in creating achievements, breaking up work into components, and delivering results as projected
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience with fullstack software programming
  • 5+ years in Python application development
  • Experience writing CLI programs
  • Experience writing UI interfaces, API applications, database design
  • Experience with cloud computing (preferably AWS)

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with software programming in C+/C#
  • Experience with infrastructure/configuration-as-code (preferably Terraform, Ansible)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools in a multi-site environment (preferably Jenkins)
  • Experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools (preferably Datadog, Splunk)
  • Experience with building and deploying containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with secrets management
  • Experience with building Unity/Unreal games

What We Offer You:

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site

#LI-RK2

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at accommodationrequest@zynga.com to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.

Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).

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