Principal Software Developer - FinOps

Zyngacareers; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 84,973 - 120,634; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid holidays

Paid vacation 15–25 days

Sick days

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase program

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Zynga in Ontario seeks a finance‑oriented FinOps analyst to build data models, dashboards, and cost insights for technology spend. You will lead internal cost allocations, collaborate with FinOps engineers, and deliver dashboards and data visualizations that empower teams to optimize spending.

The role emphasizes data quality, ingestion pipelines, and partnering with senior stakeholders, including the C‑suite, to forecast costs and drive data‑driven decisions across the company.

Qualifications

• B.S. in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in SQL, data warehouses and data visualization.
• Proficient Python for data cleaning and wrangling with pandas/NumPy.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost allocations and internal technology spend analytics.
• Design data models and analytics with FinOps software engineers.
• Create and iterate user-facing dashboards and visualizations.
• Ingest and normalize data to support dashboards and QA data quality.
• Collaborate with Finance and senior stakeholders on forecasts.
• Advise on cost analyses and optimization across Zynga.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data wrangling

Tableau

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering

Tools

AWS

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

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.

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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:

Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech! Do you love developing data models and visualizations to help teams make strategic decisions? This analyst role is a key figure in our cost transparency efforts on the FinOps team, delivering critical insights into service costs. This position also provides dashboards, data visualizations, and analyses for areas that make our org effective at serving our internal customers, allowing all teams to make better decisions.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead financial analysis activities with regards to internal cost allocations for technology spend
• Lead data model design and data analysis aspects of the FinOps team’s software development, including close collaboration with other FinOps software engineers
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to design and iterate upon user‑facing data visualizations
• Develop data ingestion and normalization to serve data visualizations and dashboards, as well as owning maintenance and ensuring ongoing data quality
• Support FinOps guidelines and work with other teams and partners to implement cost analysis and optimizations for technology spend across Zynga
• Interact with members of Finance and the C‑suite with regards to technology cost allocations, forecasts, and ad hoc FinOps-related requests

What You Bring:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling (pandas, NumPy), and ability to work with source code via pull requests, CICD pipelines, etc
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience with the following: SQL, data warehouses, Tableau or similar data visualisation tools
• Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality within data pipelines
• Experience collaborating with customers to assess their analysis and visualization needs and design solutions that present the data effectively and clearly
• Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the target audience's needs
• Comfort interacting with stakeholders at a much more senior level, ability to adjust communication style to the audience
• Experience working autonomously and capable of tackling solo projects with ease

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with FinOps practices
• Familiarity with financial concepts related to budgeting, forecasts, amortization, etc
• Previous experience with software engineering platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Datadog

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 pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $119,140 and $169,140 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.Regular, full‑time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness‑related expenses.The use of Artificial Intelligence is not being used to screen candidates. The position is for an existing vacancy.

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 [e-mail] 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).