Senior Python Engineer

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Your Project

Our client specialises in building and operating the online infrastructure that powers multiplayer experiences for some of the world’s most popular video games. They design and manage backend services that handle everything from player authentication and matchmaking to leaderboards and in-game transactions. Their technology ensures that millions of players can connect, compete, and interact seamlessly across platforms. By focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance, they enable game studios to deliver rich, engaging online features without compromising quality or stability.

The team you’ll join is responsible for the database platform for the company. They provide the technology to other internal teams to configure and deploy their services & game titles; maintain and upgrade database technologies; ensure stability and scalability across systems. We are looking for a person with excellent Python programming background, hands on experience working in k8s environment and proficient with the database technologies.

Your Role

• Develop, maintain and evolve the database platform and adapt it for cloud technologies
• Ensure high scalability and maintainability of the components
• Contribute to and review designs and code from other team members
• Perform testing and provide tooling to maintain up-to-date systems.
• Collaborate across teams to remediate database issues.
• Support migration from VMs to Kubernetes.
  
  

Your Profile

• Excellent Python development experience.
• Understanding of REST APIs.
• Strong experience with MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes (mandatory) and Docker.
• Familiarity with Vitess and Redis, or similar.
• Continuous integration and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and self-management skills.
  
  

Would be a plus

• Previous experience designing and building tooling for use by other engineers.
• Experience with game development or game engines
• Experience with large scale services (up to millions of concurrent users)
• Experience with Azure
  
  

Additional Notes

• Strong Python developer experience is critical.
• All technology runs on Kubernetes, so expertise here is essential.
• Collaboration and adaptability are key for cross-team work.
  
  

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.