Senior Software Engineer - Wizard of Oz Slots

Position Overview:

Zynga is looking for a server-side engineer in the Austin, Chicago, Bay Area, or Toronto areas, and more specifically, someone whose level of experience should be equivalent to a Senior Software Engineer on the Wizard of Oz Slots.

We have a well-rounded and tight-knit, distributed team with a healthy mix of engineering skill levels, and are looking to strengthen our team.  We need a self-driven and motivated engineer who is a strong communicator, works well as a team player, and performs well under pressure of tight deadlines.  

The candidate would have an opportunity to work on critical game components that contribute to user-facing features, gameplay functionality, existing functionality & systems, and have a general focus on solving challenging problems for high profile titles. 

What You'll Do:

• Design, architect, and support back-end services running in AWS

• Develop, integrate, and advocate for new technologies and tools

• Load-test, benchmark and optimize infrastructure

• Define, architect, and develop features and gameplay functionality in PHP

• Maintain and develop CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling

• Provide escalation support and infrastructure monitoring

• Follow engineering standard methodologies to ensure code quality, performance and reliability

• Work to identify and help to improve team and process inefficiencies

• Help to mentor other engineers

What You Bring:

• Degree in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering) or equivalent experience

• 5+ Years of backend software development experience

• Deep hands-on experience with cloud computing (preferably AWS)

• Experience maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tooling

• Experience with PHP 

• Experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend systems at scale

• Strong familiarity and experience with database systems (SQL, NoSQL)

• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software methodologies

• Strong communication skills and comfort working in a collaborative environment

Bonus Points:

• Prior game development experience (on shipped titles or live games experience)

• Experience with Chef, Terraform and/or Jenkins

• Experience in Vue.js or similar frontend frameworks