Engineering Manager

Zynga•Austin, TX

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 includes engineers with varying skill levels and builds and maintains central services critical to Central Technology and Zynga’s games. The role is based in the Chicago, Austin, or Toronto areas. Working day to day with the team and in partnership with its technical lead, the Engineering Manager will support timely, high-quality outcomes and technical excellence. The role combines people leadership and project planning with technical guidance, while balancing maintenance of live services and tools against enhancements and refactoring. Candidates should have senior engineering experience with large-scale distributed backend services and at least four years of Engineering Manager experience.

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 a diverse set of services, balancing support with new projects.
Ability to manage, mentor, and lead a distributed team of engineers.
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 sufficient depth to provide meaningful feedback and mentorship on microservice architecture, API design, and implementation on a large-scale platform.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments.
Continuously update knowledge and seek to learn about new technologies.
Excellent communication skills.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.

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, both frontend and backend.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform and Helm.
Comfort with low-level investigation of infrastructure and services.
Mobile development experience focused on iOS and/or Android.

Responsibilities

Ensure projects are clearly defined and scoped, including timeline planning and task breakdown with engineers.
Manage a pod of engineers day to day, supporting their work, 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.