Principal Software Engineer - Compliance

3 Months ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Join Zynga's Mobile Game Tech division and contribute to the company's games! As a Principal Software Engineer in the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, you will maintain high-value services and tools to ensure global compliance. This role involves writing and deploying software, designing software architecture, collaborating with internal partners, leading and mentoring the team, evaluating technologies, and collaborating on infrastructure solutions. You'll also perform code reviews and ensure service stability.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of software programming with Golang
  • 8+ years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with SQL tables and queries
  • Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases like Redis/Elasticsearch
  • Knowledge of async programming and queueing systems
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI testing
  • History of mentoring other engineers
Good to have:
  • Experience with React
  • Preferred stack includes React, Golang, and Kubernetes
Perks:
  • World-class benefits package

Job Details

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:

Join Zynga's Mobile Game Tech division and have a remarkable impact on all the company's games! Are you passionate about full stack development and crafting seamless websites with scalable backends? This role is in our well-established Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team, which maintains high-value services and tools to ensure Zynga's global compliance.

What You'll Do:

  • Write software and deploy it to cloud infrastructure, strictly following standard practices for code quality, documentation, testing, security, and automated deployments.
  • Propose and successfully implement new fullstack software architecture designs.
  • Coordinate with internal partners and customers to develop and rollout new features effectively.
  • Lead and mentor the team, ensuring that standard methodologies are followed and ambitious goals are met.
  • Evaluate and determine the best technologies and frameworks to be used in our projects.
  • Collaborate in the design and implementation of world-class infrastructure solutions for our services and tools.
  • Do quality Code reviews and ensure the services and releases stay stable and follow best practices

What You Bring:

  • Proven experience leading projects from inception to completion, breaking work into logical components, and delivering results as projected.
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming using Golang.
  • 8+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS.
  • Preferably 8+ years of experience with software programming using React.
  • Experience with SQL tables and SQL queries.
  • Hands-on experience with NoSQL databases such as Redis and Elasticsearch.
  • Practical knowledge of async programming patterns and queueing and pub/sub systems.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing.
  • A history of serving as a mentor to other engineers.

Bonus Points:

  • Preferred stack includes React, Golang, and Kubernetes.

What We Offer You:

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

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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 accommodationrequest@zynga.com 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, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).  

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About The Company

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!

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