Cloud Engineer
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- Target Role:Cloud Engineer
- Employer:Chess.com
- Work Mode:REMOTE
- Location:Remote (Europe)
- Compensation:Competitive Global Remote Compensation (Official)
- Experience:2+ Years
- Recruiter SLA:7-Day Truth Teller Guarantee
- Candidate Fee:₹0 (Zero Placement Fee Guarantee)
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About the Role
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 250M+ 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 The Role The Cloud Engineer role is critical to scaling Chess.com 's infrastructure to support millions of daily chess games and serve global users. This position combines site reliability engineering expertise with cloud infrastructure management, directly impacting system performance, reliability, and scalability across Chess.com 's multi-regional distributed architecture. The role requires deep technical expertise in both infrastructure automation and application optimization to maintain Chess.com 's position as a high-traffic gaming platform while enabling rapid feature development and deployment. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Architect and optimize cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps tools to support millions of concurrent chess games across multiple global regions Lead performance optimization initiatives by analyzing Golang and TypeScript codebases to identify and resolve bottlenecks at scale, with specific focus on chess programming optimizations Design and implement multi-regional resilient systems capable of handling extreme scale challenges including managing 1 million+ CPUs across dozens of regions Run and evolve our private Kubernetes cloud on bare-metal: a Rancher-managed fleet in our own datacenters that carries compute and IO intensive
Requirements & Qualifications
- Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.
Perks & Benefits
- Official mentor support
- verified hiring timeline
- and career progression.
The employer seeks candidates proficient in the following core technologies:
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Engineers with 2+ years of experience proficient in TypeScript, Go, Kubernetes, DevOps are encouraged to apply.
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