Senior Python Engineer (Kubernetes, Ukraine)

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

• 7+ years of experience as an engineer.
• Excellent Python development experience.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (writing operators desirable)
• Understanding of REST APIs.
• Strong experience with MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with cloud services (GCP, Azure).
Readiness to work with GCP.
• Familiarity with Redis.
• 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 sharding.
• Familiarity with Vitess or similar.
• Experience with Go

Additional Notes
• Strong Python developer and K8s experience is critical.
• Collaboration and adaptability are key for cross-team work.

What You Will Love About Working Here

• We care about all our employees and want them to feel as comfortable as possible. That's why we offer them health insurance from the first days, regardless of the probationary period.
• The gift from the company - Christmas holidays from 25 December to 31 December.
• Сooperation with Superhumans center and Veteran HUB. Capgemini Engineering has supported the launch of psychological rehabilitation department of Superhumans. Our team also donated over UAH 500 000 prosthetics for three Ukrainian defenders. Currently, we support psychological counseling provided by the Veteran Hub, and we have implemented an internal policy making the company friendly to military and veterans with the assistance of the Hub.