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.
Join us and be part of the play!
Position Overview:
Are you interested in creating great products that impact millions of people? Passionate about data and building highly scalable systems that process millions of requests per minute and terabytes of data per day? Zynga is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Ingestion team in our Analytics organization. The Data Ingestion team builds SDKs and near real-time ingestion pipelines to collect data for our analytics systems and platforms that power reporting, business intelligence, player engagement, machine learning and user acquisition.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with product managers, producers and other stakeholders to drive the technical vision, architectural design and development of our data ingestion pipelines at Zynga. Our team encourages critical problem solvers who enjoy fast-paced change and innovation.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build and own data-driven large-scale backend services to be consumed by clients across multiple platforms (mobile, web, console, pc)
- Work closely with product teams to translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Work effectively with stakeholders to address outstanding tech debt and improve system performance and reliability
- Proactively recommend improvements, new approaches and emerging technologies to address systemic pain points and technical debt
- Provide production and integration support for products running in Zynga games and services.
- Be a thought leader for the team and promote engineering best practices towards ensuring performance, reliability, and measurability
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
- 6+ years of professional experience in software development and backend services
- Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, design patterns, debugging and performance optimizations
- Familiarity with building RESTful backend services in Java, GoLang and/or Python
- Familiarity with database systems (SQL, NoSQL). Experience with Redshift is a plus
- Experience with AWS is highly preferred
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices is a plus
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
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.
The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $96,400 and $142,660 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.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing the necessary support and accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities, health conditions, or impairments (subject to any local qualifying requirements) to ensure their full participation in the job application or interview process. Please contact us at [email protected] to request any accommodations or for support related to your application for an open position.
Please be aware that Zynga does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Zynga also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scamp or phishing attack, and you should not engage. Zynga’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a zynga.com, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
- 6+ years of professional experience in software development and backend services
- Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, design patterns, debugging and performance optimizations
- Familiarity with building RESTful backend services in Java, GoLang and/or Python
- Familiarity with database systems (SQL, NoSQL)
- Experience with Redshift
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with senior leadership
Zynga Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is positioned as comprehensive, featuring medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, an EAP, and wellness programs as core offerings. Employer-paid premiums for employees and support for dependents are emphasized to keep costs manageable.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as generous and inclusive for all new parents, complemented by fertility support, adoption assistance, and emergency childcare. Additional partnerships and programs reinforce family-building and return-to-work support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is characterized by flexible or “unlimited” PTO/DTO alongside paid holidays and sick leave. This breadth of time-off options is highlighted as a core element of the package.
Zynga Insights
What We Do
Zynga was founded in 2007 with the vision that play would become one of the core activities on the Internet. We pioneered social games with the belief that if we could make games simple, accessible and social the world would start playing. We are excited that games have grown to become the second most popular activity by time spent, even surpassing email. But we have a lot of hard work, innovation and growth ahead of us to create a future where social gaming is a daily habit for everyone.
Zynga Offices
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