Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-regional resilient infrastructure to handle millions of concurrent sessions.
• Lead hybrid cloud migration strategies, integrating bare-metal resources with cloud services.
• Own on-call rotations and incident response procedures to maintain high availability SLAs.
• Architect monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize system performance through capacity planning, load testing, and resource allocation.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual operational overhead.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong proficiency with UNIX/Linux operating systems and command-line administration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Hands-on experience with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing bare-metal server infrastructure and datacenter operations.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Background in high-availability architectures and disaster recovery planning.
• Experience with game server infrastructure or real-time application hosting.
• Previous experience working in a fully remote, distributed environment.

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. We are a team of over 600 fully remote people in 60+ countries working to support 250M+ chess players worldwide. We prize our mission-driven, flat, and no-corporate culture.