Senior Backend Developer Python Jobs in Plano, TX

Job Summary:
ZeniMax Media is home to Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind major game franchises. They are seeking a Senior Backend Programmer to design, implement, and maintain backend services in the cloud while building game-side APIs, ensuring optimal performance and security for their games.
Responsibilities:
• Help architect, build, and maintain cloud-based microservice systems primarily in Golang and C++ to support Bethesda Game Studios games.
• Code review and mentor more junior team members
• Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives.
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to processes and tools.
• Lead and participate in team or customer meetings as necessary.
Qualifications:
Required:
• You have previous experience building and architecting microservice based distributed applications for deployment to a cloud environment
• You have a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• You have 10+ years experience in object-oriented and asynchronous programming in multiple languages (you're a polyglot), preferably C++, Golang, Python, and C# (Java acceptable substitute for Golang or Python if you have C++)
• You have 5+ years building microservices in the cloud using HTTP protocols, message brokers, caching, and databases systems to support a microservice based architecture
• You have 5+ years architecting scalable database solutions to work with microservice architecture (Relational and/or NoSQL)
• You have been responsible for coding and/or reviewing the code for most of the Skills (What Makes You Extra S.P.E.C.I.A.L.) listed below
• You have significant experience working in a Linux based environment including basic system administration and performance management
• You have familiarity with front end frameworks like React or similar
• You have familiarity with Cloud Architecture in AWS and Azure, Containerization systems, and DevOps principles
• Previous on call experience where you can identify root causes of issues and fix most issues independently
Preferred:
• Solid Computer Science fundamentals including design patterns, algorithms and algorithmic complexity, memory management, state/object management, compilation, execution, and asynchronous processing and how all these apply to the language you are working with
• Solid understanding of object-oriented principles including application of composition vs inheritance as well as SOLID principles as it applies to the language you are working with
• Expertise in async programming principles and networked applications
• Strong C++ fundamentals
• Solid Golang or Java
• Proficiency with Python or C#
• Proficiency in how to build multi-layered microservice architecture at enterprise scale
• Proficiency in message broker and caching system and how to use them to further scale over a microservice architecture
• Knowledge of where horizontal scale in cloud architecture fails
• Knowledge of cost implications of different architectures
• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
• Familiarity with services and technologies available in Azure and AWS you can build upon
• Ability to develop towards Azure using a multi-cloud framework while managing capacity issues and fallback to AWS
• Ability to develop towards hybrid data center and cloud platforms
• Expertise in strengths and weakness of solutions offered by each cloud provider
• Database knowledge of basics for different database types (MySQL and variants and Mongo and variants) to the degree you can optimize and tune from the developer perspective
• Knowledge of database schema and scaling methodologies to further optimization and scale
• Proficiency in database query languages
• Ability to diagnose performance and connectivity Linux and Windows related issues
• Understanding of application side security best practices for multilayered micro-services environment
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Git, Perforce, and Team City
• Expertise in branch management
• Experience with open-source frameworks, operating systems, and containerization technologies like Docker, ECS, AKS, and Kubernetes
• Expertise in application and API testing methodologies and best practices
• Expertise in automated testing
Company:
ZeniMax creates and publishes original interactive entertainment content for consoles, the PC, and handheld/wireless devices. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Rockville, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.