Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
Level Up Your Career with Zynga!
At Zynga we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of TakeTwo Interactive our games have been downloaded over 6 billion timesconnecting players in 175 countries through fun strategy and a little friendly competition.
From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles mindbending puzzles and social word challenges our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fanfavorites and latest hits include FarmVille Words With Friends Zynga Poker Game of Thrones Slots Casino Wizard of Oz Slots Hit it Rich! Slots Wonka Slots Top Eleven Toon Blast Empires & Puzzles Merge Dragons! CSR Racing Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells Match Factory and Color Block Jamplus many more!
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California our teams span North America Europe and Asia working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether youre spinning strategizing matching or competing Zynga is where fun meets innovationand where you can take your career to the next level.
Join us and be part of the play!
Position Overview
Passionate about technology Join our team at Zynga making an impact across all of the companys games Mobile Game Tech! We are in search of an outstanding individual with a passion for technology and the ability to work with a team with dynamic strengths. The Principal Software Engineer will play a key role in the organization focusing on advanced technology developments to architect build and maintain scalable endtoend products and services.
What Youll Do
- Design architect build and maintain new and existing backend applications/services running in AWS
- Optimize and refactor existing services to improve reliability scalability and to lower cost
- Document and build plans for architecture and system designs
- Take a handson approach in architecting writing and reviewing code
- Review detailed tech plans from others aligning with the team and Zyngawide technical vision
- Proactively identify and recommend improvements to address systemic problems and tech debt
- Follow engineering standard methodologies to ensure code quality performance scalability and reliability.
- Collaborate effectively with teammates contributing to an innovative environment of technical excellence.
- Work collaboratively across teams to understand product/customer requirements and propose technical solutions
- Provide production and integration support for shared technology across Zynga games
What You Bring
- Degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science Computer Engineering) or equivalent experience
- 8 years of handson software development experience
- Experience in programming RESTful services using Java Golang Python or PHP
- Strong familiarity and experience using AWS and/or other cloud computing platforms (IaaS PaaS SaaS)
- Experience with database systems (SQL NoSQL)
- Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes
- Deep understanding of algorithms design patterns debugging and performance optimization
- Excellent ability to work efficiently with teammates and independently.
- Excellent interpersonal skills particularly the ability to discuss timelines design concerns work with distributed teams and provide effective feedback to team members.
- Experience in objectoriented design of applications/systems
- Familiarity with web development using JavaScript Angular and/or React is a plus
What We Offer You
Zynga offers a worldclass benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits visit the Zynga Benefits
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 individuals 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.
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Employment Type
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