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We are seeking top engineering talent to join our creative, dynamic, and highly driven team. Zynga’s mission is to “Connect the World through Games” by building a truly social experience that makes the world a better place. The ideal candidate will have a devotion to software craftsmanship, an unwavering commitment to quality, and the desire to have their work seen by tens of millions of people worldwide.
The Analytics Engineering team is responsible for all things data at Zynga. We own the full game and player data pipeline – from ingestion to storage to driving insights and analytics. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design and development of quality services and products to support the Analytics needs of our games. In this role, you will be part of our Central Technology group focusing on advanced technology developments for building scalable data infrastructure and end-to-end services which can be leveraged by the various games. We are a 120+ organization servicing 1500 others across 13 global locations.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

  • Build and own a multi PB-scale data platform.
  • Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/enhancements to systems and data pipelines (ETLs) while adhering to the SLA.
  • Follow engineering best methodologies towards ensuring performance, reliability, scalability, and measurability.
  • Collaborate with other Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Scientists, and other stakeholders, taking on learning and leadership opportunities that will arise every single day.
  • Mentor junior engineers in the team to level them up.
  • Raise the bar on sustainable engineering by improving best practices, producing best in class of code, documentation, testing and monitoring.

YOU WILL BE A PERFECT FIT IF YOU HAVE:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent).
  • Minimum 5 years of strong data engineering design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed data platforms/products.
  • Advanced coding expertise in SQL & Python/JVM-based language.
  • Exposure to heterogeneous data storage systems (relational, NoSQL, in-memory etc).
  • Knowledge of data modeling, lineage, data access and its governance.
  • Proficient in AWS services like Redshift, Kinesis, Lambda, EMR, EKS/ECS etc.
  • Exposure to open source software, frameworks and broader cutting edge technologies (Airflow, Spark, Druid etc).
  • Familiar with infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g Terraform, Chef)
  • Proven ability to deliver work on time with attention to quality.
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills and ability to work effectively with others in a team environment.

Zynga does not engage in financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process. We do not conduct job interviews over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp or others. We will never ask you for your personal or financial information over unofficial chat channels. Our in-house recruitment team only contacts individuals via official company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com or naturalmotion.com email domain).