Senior Cloud Engineer - Kubernetes & Global Infra (Remote)

Chess.com, LLC; United States; A distancia; USD 150.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Chess.com, LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to scale a global, high-traffic platform. You will own cloud-native infrastructure, multi-region resilience, and performance optimization across Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps tooling.

You will collaborate with development teams to implement cloud service integrations, build CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD, and enhance observability using Prometheus, Mimir, ES, Vector, and Tempo. This is a remote-friendly, mission-driven team.

Formación

• 7+ years managing large-scale cloud-native distributed systems.
• Expert Kubernetes proficiency for cluster deployment and orchestration.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code with Terraform in production environments.
• Strong Golang programming with performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems design and failure modes.
• Extensive experience with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and cost optimization.
• Proficiency with GitOps and CI/CD practices in modern deployments.
• Hands-on observability using metrics, logging, and tracing at scale.

Responsabilidades

• Architect and optimize cloud-native infrastructure for multi-regional scale.
• Lead performance optimization by analyzing Golang and TypeScript codebases for bottlenecks.
• Design multi-regional, resilient systems with large CPU footprints across regions.
• Run and evolve a Rancher-managed private Kubernetes cloud and coordinate with cloud regions.
• Execute incident response and drive operational excellence for critical infra.
• Develop high-performance integration patterns for distributed data processing.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement cloud service integrations.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform across all cloud resources.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitOps using ArgoCD.
• Monitor and enhance observability with Prometheus, Mimir, ES, Vector, Tempo.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

Terraform

Golang

GitOps

Distributed systems

Multi-region

Observability

Linux

Herramientas

ArgoCD

GKE

Rancher

Prometheus

Mimir

Tempo

Vector

ES

Kafka

Redis

Descripción del empleo

Chess.com, LLC is seeking a Cloud Engineer to scale a global, high-traffic platform. You will own cloud-native infrastructure, multi-region resilience, and performance optimization across Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps tooling.

You will collaborate with development teams to implement cloud service integrations, build CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD, and enhance observability using Prometheus, Mimir, ES, Vector, and Tempo. This is a remote-friendly, mission-driven team.