# Cloud Engineer

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

- **Id**: 4031810
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chess-cloud-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_company_offices
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T18:39:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:53:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5422
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Online Forums & Community Platforms, Hobbies & Leisure

## Company

- **Id**: 673479
- **Name**: Chess
- **Domain**: chess.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chess-5>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 68
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Mimir** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Rancher** — Optional: no
- **SRE** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **Service Mesh** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:53:16Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T20:38:20Z

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