Remote Site Reliability Engineer — Global Scale

chess; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chess.com is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure stability, performance, and scalability of our global gaming platform infrastructure. You will support millions of concurrent users, own on-call rotations, and drive incident response to maintain high availability.

You’ll collaborate across engineering teams to implement infrastructure-as-code, lead hybrid cloud migrations, and optimize monitoring, security, and capacity planning for a robust, scalable system.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, engineering or related field.
• Minimum 5 years in site reliability, DevOps or infra roles.
• Strong UNIX/Linux experience and CLI proficiency.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure) and IaC tools.
• Hands-on with configuration management (Ansible, etc.).
• Knowledge of networking, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Proficient in observability tooling and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-regional, resilient infra for millions of sessions daily.
• Lead hybrid cloud migration, blending bare‑metal and cloud resources.
• Own on-call rotation and incident response with high availability SLAs.
• Architect monitoring/alerting to detect bottlenecks early.
• Collaborate on IaC and deployment pipelines for CI/CD.
• Optimize capacity planning and resource use across regions.
• Establish security protocols and data protection measures.
• Partner with engineers on scalable real-time processing solutions.
• Drive automation to reduce manual ops and improve reliability.
• Mentor teammates on SRE best practices and standards.

Skills

BSc in CS

5+ years SRE

Unix/Linux

Cloud platforms

IaC

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Chess.com is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure stability, performance, and scalability of our global gaming platform infrastructure. You will support millions of concurrent users, own on-call rotations, and drive incident response to maintain high availability.

You’ll collaborate across engineering teams to implement infrastructure-as-code, lead hybrid cloud migrations, and optimize monitoring, security, and capacity planning for a robust, scalable system.