Engineering Manager

Zynga•Austin, TX

12h

About The Position

Zynga is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a newly formed Core Services team within the Development and Infrastructure Systems organization in the Central Technology group. The small, distributed team has a range of engineering skill levels and builds and maintains central services that are critical to Central Technology and Zynga games. The role partners day to day with the technical lead to deliver timely, high-quality outcomes and maintain technical excellence. The position is listed for candidates in the Chicago, Austin, or Toronto areas.

Requirements

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education or work experience.
At least 4 years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
At least 4 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer.
Ability to build and maintain roadmaps and schedules for diverse services, balancing support with new projects.
Ability to manage, mentor, and lead a distributed engineering team.
Ability to collaborate 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.
Background building backend services in modern languages such as Java or Golang, with the depth to provide meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and large-scale platform implementation.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments.
Ongoing interest in learning about new technologies.
Excellent communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience defining and maintaining SLOs for live services.
Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks.
Familiarity with observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog.
Experience with JavaScript frameworks, for both frontend and backend.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform and Helm.
Comfort investigating infrastructure and services at a low level.
Mobile development experience focused on iOS and/or Android.

Responsibilities

Ensure projects are clearly defined and scoped, including timeline scoping and task breakdown with engineers.
Manage the engineering pod day to day, including task oversight, morale, career growth, and future planning.
Drive standards for technical excellence in partnership with the technical lead.
Review engineering architectures and provide feedback.
Monitor and improve engineering processes.
Balance maintenance of a variety of live services and tools with updates, forward-looking enhancements, and refactoring initiatives.