Base Salary
$114k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define, architect, and develop core systems and client infrastructure in Unity and C#.
- Diagnose and resolve game-wide issues involving load times, frame rates, memory pressure, build stability, and runtime stability.
- Evaluate, upgrade, integrate, and maintain third-party libraries, SDKs, and engine dependencies.
- Design foundational architecture changes that enable future feature development.
- Create technical design documentation, implementation plans, estimates, assumptions, and risk assessments.
- Profile, optimize, and refactor code to meet performance and stability goals.
- Lead multi-week or month-long infrastructure and tooling initiatives with other engineers.
- Review code and technical documentation, give technical talks, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent education/work experience.
- 6+ years of game industry or mobile app experience as a software developer.
- Experience shipping titles or working on live games, especially mobile iOS or Android games.
- Expert knowledge of C# and 3+ years of Unity experience, including engine-level and low-level systems work.
- Understanding of client/server and server-side architecture in modern mobile games.
- Experience diagnosing performance issues and maintaining third-party libraries, SDKs, or engine versions.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, back-end monitoring technologies such as Datadog, Git, and performance profiling and optimization tools.
- Strong communication, collaboration, distributed-work, technical-risk, and blocker-resolution abilities.
- Bonus qualifications include Unity engine source modification or custom engine forks, game build pipelines or developer tooling, casual-game experience, and Claude Code or a similar AI coding tool.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage.
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year, 15–25 paid vacation days or eligibility for the company’s discretionary time off program, and up to 10 paid sick days per year.
- Paid parental and compassionate leave, mental health and wellness programs, family planning support through Maven, commuter benefits, and fitness-expense reimbursements.
- Regular full-time employment with eligibility for bonus or equity awards, a 401(k) plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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About Zynga
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 is a global leader in interactive entertainment with a mission to connect the world through games and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. With massive global reach in more than 175 countries and regions, the combined diverse portfolio of popular game franchises has been downloaded more than 10 billion times on mobile, including Color Block Jam, CSR2™, Empires & Puzzles™, Game of Thrones: Legends™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Golf Rival™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Hit it Rich! Casino™, Match Factory!™, Merge Dragons!™, Toon Blast™, Toy Blast™, Wizard of Oz Slots Casino™, Words With Friends™, and Zynga Poker™. Founded in 2007, Zynga is headquartered in California with locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.zynga.com or follow Zynga on X, Instagram, Facebook, or the Zynga blog