# Site Reliability 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 Site Reliability Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our global gaming platform infrastructure. This position exists to bridge the gap between development and operations, maintaining high availability for millions of concurrent users while supporting rapid feature development and deployment. The SRE will be instrumental in building resilient systems that can handle massive scale across multiple regions, directly impacting user experience and platform reliabi

- **Id**: 706118
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chess-site-reliability-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-27T13:49:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T17:13:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 171
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5203
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **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

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 82000
- **Max usd**: 193000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_seniority_cell
- **Sample n**: 3508

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **SRE** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Bash** — Optional: yes
- **Chef** — Optional: yes
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes
- **Puppet** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 170

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T03:57:05Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-27T15:28:39Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-03T11:00:49Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.544
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 170
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

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