Engineering Manager - Core Services

About the role

Zynga is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a newly formed Core Services team within its Development and Infrastructure Systems organization in the Central Technology group. Core Services is a small, distributed team that builds and maintains central services used by all games. The role suits someone who has worked as a senior engineer on large-scale distributed backend services and has at least four years of experience as an Engineering Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Keep projects clearly defined and scoped, overseeing timeline scoping and task breakdown with the engineers
• Manage a pod of engineers daily, covering their tasks, morale, career growth and future planning
• Drive technical excellence standards with the technical lead
• Review and give feedback on engineering architectures
• Help monitor and improve engineering processes
• Balance maintenance of live services and tools with updates, enhancements and refactoring

Required profile

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent education or work experience
• 4+ years as an Engineering Manager
• 4+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
• Ability to build and maintain roadmaps and schedules for a diverse set of services
• Ability to manage, mentor and lead a distributed team
• Collaborative work with production, product and customer engineering teams
• Visa sponsorship is not provided; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States

Required skills

• Backend services in modern languages such as Java or Golang, with insight into microservice architecture, API design and implementation
• Hands-on experience with low-latency systems and massive-scale backend services in AWS
• Infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes deployments
• Bonus: SLOs, test-driven development, Datadog, JS frameworks, Terraform, Helm, mobile (iOS/Android)