Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps tools
• Lead performance optimization of Golang and TypeScript codebases at scale
• Design and implement multi-regional resilient systems across dozens of regions
• Run and evolve a private Kubernetes cloud on bare-metal alongside GKE regions
• Serve as primary technical resource for incident response and operational excellence
• Develop high-performance integration patterns for distributed systems
• Collaborate with development teams on cloud service integration and deployment architectures
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across all cloud resources
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitOps approaches such as ArgoCD
• Enhance system observability with Prometheus, Mimir, ES, Vector and Tempo

Requirements

• 7+ years managing large-scale, cloud-native distributed systems
• Expert-level Kubernetes proficiency
• Advanced Terraform experience in production
• Strong Golang programming and optimization skills
• Deep understanding of distributed systems design
• Extensive experience with GCP and AWS
• Proficiency with GitOps and CI/CD
• Hands-on experience with metrics, logging, and distributed tracing
• Strong Linux systems administration skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Chess programming and optimization experience
• TypeScript development experience
• Service mesh implementation in hybrid multi-cloud and bare-metal environments
• Message broker expertise with Kafka, PubSub, and Redis
• Gaming industry experience with real-time systems
• Experience with Google Cloud partnerships
• C/C++ programming experience
• Advanced networking knowledge for multi-regional and hybrid connectivity
• Experience managing bare-metal infrastructure
• Database performance optimization experience

Benefits

• Fully remote, work from anywhere

About the Company

• Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.
• A team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries serving 250M+ chess players worldwide.