Position Overview

Zynga is looking for an Engineering Manager in the Chicago, Austin or Toronto areas to lead a newly formed Core Services team within our larger Development and Infrastructure Systems organization in the Central Technology group. Core Services is a small, distributed team with a mix of engineering skill levels that builds and maintains a number of central services critical to both Central Technology and all games across Zynga.

The optimal candidate will have experience as a senior engineer working on and maintaining large-scale distributed backend services, and at least four years of experience as an Engineering Manager. You will work with the team on a day-to-day basis in partnership with the technical lead to ensure timely, high quality outcomes and technical excellence.

What You'll Do:

• Ensure the team has clearly defined and scoped projects, overseeing timeline scoping and task breakdown with the engineers

• Manage a pod of engineers on the team on a daily basis, both in their tasks as well as morale, career growth and future planning 

• Drive standards for technical excellence within the team in partnership with the technical lead

• Review and give feedback to engineering architectures

• Help to monitor and improve engineering process

• Balance maintenance of a wide variety of live services and tools with updates and forward-looking enhancements and refactoring initiatives.

What You Bring:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education / work experience

• 4+ Years experience as an Engineering Manager

• 4+ Years industry experience as a Software Engineer

• Ability to build and maintain roadmaps and schedules for a diverse set of services, balancing support with new projects

• Ability to manage, mentor and lead a distributed team of engineers.

• Able to work collaboratively with engineering stakeholders including production, product, and customer engineering teams.

• Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure in an AWS environment

• A background building backend services in modern languages such as Java or Golang, with the depth to give meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation on a large-scale platform.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments

• Updates knowledge constantly, always seeking to learn about new technologies

• Excellent communication skills

Bonus Points:

• Experience defining and maintaining SLOs for live services

• Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks

• Familiar with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog

• Experience with JS frameworks, both frontend and backend

• Experience with IaC frameworks such as Terraform and Helm

• Comfortable with low-level investigation of infrastructure and services

• Mobile development experience with a focus on iOS and/or Android

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

Please note that Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.