Principal Software Engineer

Zynga, Inc.
Ontario, CA, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Compensation
$169,140.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Continuous Integration Data Visualization Data Warehousing Design of User Interfaces NumPy Software Engineering SQL Databases Tableau (Software) Datadog Data Processing
+5 more
Data Ingestion Pandas Information Technology Splunk Data Pipelines

Job description

Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech! Do you love developing data models and visualizations to help teams make strategic decisions? This analyst role is a key figure in our cost transparency efforts on the FinOps team, delivering critical insights into service costs. This position also provides dashboards, data visualizations, and analyses for areas that make our org effective at serving our internal customers, allowing all teams to make better decisions.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead financial analysis activities with regards to internal cost allocations for technology spend
  • Lead data model design and data analysis aspects of the FinOps team’s software development, including close collaboration with other FinOps software engineers
  • Engage with customers and stakeholders to design and iterate upon user-facing data visualizations
  • Develop data ingestion and normalization to serve data visualizations and dashboards, as well as owning maintenance and ensuring ongoing data quality
  • Support FinOps guidelines and work with other teams and partners to implement cost analysis and optimizations for technology spend across Zynga
  • Interact with members of Finance and the C-suite with regards to technology cost allocations, forecasts, and ad hoc FinOps-related requests

Requirements

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling (pandas, NumPy), and ability to work with source code via pull requests, CICD pipelines, etc
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience with the following: SQL, data warehouses, Tableau or similar data visualization tools
  • Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality within data pipelines
  • Experience collaborating with customers to assess their analysis and visualization needs and design solutions that present the data effectively and clearly
  • Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the target audience’s needs
  • Comfort interacting with stakeholders at a much more senior level, ability to adjust communication style to the audience
  • Experience working autonomously and capable of tackling solo projects with ease

Bonus Points:

  • Familiarity with FinOps practices
  • Familiarity with financial concepts related to budgeting, forecasts, amortization, etc
  • Previous experience with software engineering platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Datadog

Benefits & conditions

The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $119,140 and $169,140 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program. Regular, full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses. The use of Artificial Intelligence is not being used to screen candidates. The position is for an existing vacancy.

About the company

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 Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times-connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition.

From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites 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 Jam -plus 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 you’re spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation-and where you can take your career to the next level., 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.

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