Engineering Manager

The role

Lead a newly formed Core Services team of engineers, managing their daily work, morale, career growth and planning. Set technical standards with the technical lead and balance live service maintenance with new enhancements.

What you will do

• Ensure the team has clearly defined and scoped projects, with timeline scoping and task breakdown done with the engineers
• Manage a pod of engineers daily, covering tasks, morale, career growth and future planning
• Drive standards for technical excellence within the team with the technical lead
• Review and give feedback on engineering architectures
• Help monitor and improve engineering process
• Balance maintenance of live services and tools with updates and refactoring initiatives

Required qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education or 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 production, product, and customer engineering teams
• Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend online services infrastructure in an AWS environment
• Background building backend services in modern languages such as Java or Golang, with depth to mentor on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments
• Constantly updates knowledge and learns new technologies
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• 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

Benefits

• World-class benefits package to support and balance the needs of teams (details on the Zynga Benefits site)

Before you apply

• Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
• Zynga does not conduct interviews or make offers over third-party messaging apps

About the company

Zynga is a global interactive entertainment company and a label of Take-Two Interactive, founded in 2007 and headquartered in California. Its games span North America, Europe and Asia.