Site Reliability Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps/Gamedev): Designing and implementing multi-regional resilient infrastructure for a global gaming platform with an accent on stability, performance, and scalability. Focus on hybrid cloud migration, automating deployment pipelines, and ensuring high availability for millions of concurrent users.

Location: Remote (Global - Work from anywhere)

Company

hirify.global is the world's leading platform for playing and learning chess, serving over 250 million players worldwide.

What you will do

• Design and implement multi-regional resilient infrastructure capable of handling millions of concurrent sessions and transactions.
• Lead the hybrid cloud migration strategy, integrating bare-metal datacenters with cloud services.
• Own the on-call rotation and incident response procedures to maintain high availability SLAs.
• Architect monitoring and alerting systems to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement infrastructure-as-code practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize system performance through capacity planning, load testing, and resource allocation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong proficiency with UNIX/Linux operating systems and command-line administration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and IaC tools like Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management systems (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Nice to have

• Experience managing bare-metal server infrastructure and datacenter operations.
• Advanced knowledge of content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge computing.
• Proficiency in server-side automation and scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash).
• Experience with game server infrastructure or real-time application hosting.
• Previous experience in a fully remote, distributed work environment.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work policy with the ability to work from any country.
• Flat, no-corporate culture driven by passion and commitment to the game.
• Collaborative environment with a mission-driven team of 600+ people across 60+ countries.
• Opportunity to impact a global community of 250M+ users.