The role
Chess.com needs a Cloud Engineer to scale infrastructure serving millions of daily chess games across dozens of regions. You'll combine SRE, Kubernetes and Terraform work with performance tuning in Golang and TypeScript.
What you'll do
- Architect Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps infrastructure across global regions
- Run a Rancher-managed bare-metal Kubernetes cloud alongside GKE regions
- Find and fix performance bottlenecks in Golang and TypeScript codebases
- Lead incident response as the primary technical resource for critical issues
- Build CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD and observability with Prometheus and Mimir
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- 7+ years running large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems
- Expert Kubernetes and advanced Terraform in production
- Strong Golang skills for optimizing high-performance services
- Experience with GCP and AWS, including networking and cost optimization
- Deep Linux administration and distributed systems design knowledge
Nice to have
- Chess programming and bit-level optimization experience
- Service mesh, Kafka, PubSub or Redis experience
- Bare-metal management and C/C++ experience
Skills and platforms
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Golang
- TypeScript
- GitOps
- ArgoCD
- Prometheus
- Mimir
- Distributed Systems
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Linux
- CI/CD
- Observability
- Infrastructure as Code
- Performance Optimization
- Bare-metal
The company
Chess.com
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Chess.com is the #1 chess destination with more than 275 million members! Play for free, join tournaments, and improve your game with lessons and videos from top Grandmasters and coaches.
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