Site Reliability Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and implement multi-regional resilient infrastructure handling millions of concurrent sessions and transactions daily
• ▹Lead the hybrid cloud migration strategy, integrating bare-metal datacenter resources with cloud services
• ▹Own the on-call rotation and incident response, maintaining high availability SLAs
• ▹Architect monitoring and alerting systems to catch performance bottlenecks before they impact users
• ▹Collaborate with development teams on infrastructure-as-code practices and deployment pipelines for CI/CD
• ▹Optimize performance through capacity planning, load testing and resource allocation
• ▹Establish and maintain security protocols and risk assessment procedures
• ▹Design scalable solutions for high-traffic applications and real-time processing
• ▹Drive automation through scripting and configuration management
• ▹Mentor team members on SRE best practices and contribute to infrastructure standards and documentation

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• ▹5+ years in site reliability engineering, DevOps or infrastructure engineering
• ▹Experience managing bare-metal server infrastructure and datacenter operations
• ▹Strong UNIX/Linux and command-line administration
• ▹Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation or similar)
• ▹Hands-on experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar)
• ▹Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS) and network troubleshooting
• ▹Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes or similar)
• ▹Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack or similar)
• ▹Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, performance optimization and scaling strategies

Nice to have

• ▹Advanced knowledge of CDNs and edge computing
• ▹Server-side automation and scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash or similar)
• ▹High-availability architectures and disaster recovery planning
• ▹Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance requirements
• ▹Experience with game server infrastructure or real-time application hosting
• ▹Database administration and optimization for high-concurrency applications
• ▹Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• ▹Capacity planning and performance testing tools
• ▹Previous experience in a fully remote, distributed environment
• ▹Continuous learning mindset with interest in emerging infrastructure technologies

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Full-time position
• ▹100% remote, work from anywhere

About the company

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the leading platform for playing and learning chess. Its fully remote team of 600+ people in 60+ countries serves over 250 million players.