Headquarters: USA
URL: https://www.chess.com
About You
You are passionate about building and managing databases. You are an expert in MySQL and are deep into both hardware and app / schema layer. You are humble with a sense of humor and eager to be a part of a like minded team of people. You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!
What You’ll Do
- You’ll be proactive in improving our user experience and system health
- You are willing and able to participate in our on-call schedule
- You will help us to reinvent how people experience chess around the world
- You will take part in building a multi regional resilient system capable of handling millions of games each day along with tons of additional services.
- You will have the opportunity to solve interesting challenges like storing chess games, puzzle attempts, and a 100M+ member social network
- You will help us maintain stability and performance as we blend our existing bare-metal datacenter hosted with GCP for microservices and scaling
Preferred Skills
- Strong understanding of MySQL(Percona), Redis, Linux, hardware, haproxy,
- Experience with data layer technologies (RDBMS/SQL, NOSQL/key-value, Graph, etc)
- Experience with monitoring & visualization (datadog, PMM, etc)
- Detailed understanding of http and related technologies
- Knowledge of configuration management system
- Server-side automation scripting
- Strong knowledge of UNIX based OS fundamentals
- Security knowledge and risk assessment ability
- Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
- Sense of ownership and responsibility
- Lifelong learner
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time or contract position
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
- This is open to applicants in time zones within GMT -3 and GMT -7
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/chess-com-database-administrator-at-114th-most-visited-site
