Senior Cloud Systems Engineer

About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 185M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

About You

You are passionate about building and managing infrastructure. It brings you joy to learn new technologies and use them to help reach challenging product goals. You have solid experience deep diving into Linux internals, as well as the future-oriented skills of managing Cloud/Kubernetes ecosystems. You are humble with a sense of humor and eager to be a part of a like minded team of people. You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!

What you'll do

You will help us to reinvent how people experience chess around the world
You will take part in building a multi regional resilient system capable of handling millions of games each day along with tons of additional services.
You will have the opportunity to solve interesting challenges like scaling 1 million CPUs across a dozen regions.
You will help us maintain stability and performance as we blend our existing bare-metal datacenter hosted with GCP for microservices and scaling
You will get to directly cooperate with Google Engineers on cutting edge solutions

Preferred Skills

Proficiency in managing Kubernetes clusters
High traffic production experience with GCP or AWS clouds
Solid experience managing all resources with Terraform (we treat Infrastructure as Code)
Experience building CI/CD pipelines & GitOps approach
Good understanding of modern observability stacks i.e. Prometheus, Cortex/Mimir, EFK, Jaeger
Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
Sense of ownership and responsibility
Lifelong learner

Nice to Have

Experience with message brokers (e.g. Kafka, PubSub, Redis)
You are interested in building a hybrid on-prem/cloud Service Mesh

About the Opportunity

This is a full-time opportunity
We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
Open to applicants across all time zones within the Americas

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