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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Zynga, Inc.
- **Location:** Ontario, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $169,140.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Data Ingestion, Pandas, Information Technology, Splunk, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2679a1f2-133a-4077-8e36-81ca8646fe03

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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