Software Architect
zyngaAustin (TX)
About the role
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Position Overview:
Come join the AI team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company's games - Central Technology! As a Software Architect you will be responsible for the technical vision, design and implementation of AI-powered tools and systems that elevate developer productivity and player experiences at scale. We're looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for artificial intelligence and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths.
What You'll Do:
- Design and architect scalable AI systems, full stack applications, and cloud infrastructure running in AWS with a focus on LLM-powered services and agentic workflows
- Own cross-cutting architecture decisions and the technical strategy for AI tools that multiple game studios and engineering teams across Zynga depend onEstablish and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, review culture, CI/CD, and reliability practices.
- Advocate for and implement new AI technologies, frameworks, and engineering standards, keeping the team at the forefront of a rapidly evolving landscape
- Evaluate and choose AI platforms and infrastructure with a long-term lens.
- Document and build comprehensive plans for architecture and system designs across the AI tooling ecosystem.
- Work collaboratively across game studios, product, and central technology teams to understand developer needs and propose AI-driven solutions that meaningfully improve productivity
- Establish engineering processes and metrics to measure software process, operations, and quality
- Partner with stakeholder on realistic scoping and sequencing; flag technical risk early.
- Coach and mentor engineers
What You Bring:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent 8+ years of professional experience in software development of cloud based software
- Experience with AI/ML systems integration at the platform layer.
- Demonstrated expertise in Python across multiple programming languages, architectures, and system types.
- Strong familiarity and experience using AWS and/or other cloud computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes/EKSExperience with database systems (SQL, NoSQL)
- Deep understanding of algorithms, design patterns, debugging and performance optimization
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
- Familiarity with web development using JS, Angular and React is a plus
- 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
- The use of Artificial Intelligence is not being used to screen candidates. The position is for an existing vacancy.
- Please note that Zynga is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.
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, take2games.com, naturalmotion.com, smallgiantgames.com, themavens.com, gram.gs email domain).
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