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Chess.com · 1 month ago

Analysis Infrastructure Engineer

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
date5+ years exp

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world, dedicated to serving the global chess community. They are seeking a Senior Analysis Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their chess game analysis cluster and contribute to the development of their C++ analysis library and automation tools.

GamificationGaming
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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Ship improvements to the world’s largest chess game analysis cluster that serves fun and educational Game Reviews to millions of chess players every day
Design, extend, optimize and maintain our cross-platform C++ chess analysis library that powers our bots, Coaches, Fairplay, Game Review, Advanced Stats and more
Proactively contribute developer automation/tooling for helping the team move faster via useful CI/CD workflows or Slack integrations
Contribute to system architecture & API design discussions at the application and distributed system levels

Qualification

C++Distributed systemsAPI designGoPythonGit/GitHubLinux/UnixAI coding toolsEagerness to learnContext-switchingEnd-to-end ownership

Preferred

5+ years professional software development with production experience in C++, Go, Python, with very good proficiency in at least one
Solid distributed systems understanding including service architecture, API design, deployment and operations practices, Kubernetes, Protocol Buffers
Git/GitHub fluency including branching strategies, code review, and multi-repo workflows
Linux/Unix proficiency for scripting, debugging, and production operations
AI coding tool proficiency - Possesses the necessary foundational skills to move with excellent velocity and quality using agentic coding systems
Eagerness to learn - Excited by unfamiliar technologies rather than intimidated by them
Gameness for variety - Great at context-switching between different languages/domains
End-to-end ownership - Take responsibility from design implementation deployment support

Company

Chess.com

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Chess.com is an online community for chess players to learn and discuss strategy and play with others in real-time.
dateFounded in 2007
location
Mountain View, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
http://www.chess.com

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$0.55M
Key Investors
General Atlantic
2022-01-14Private Equity
2018-01-01Acquired
2013-01-01Secondary Market· $0.55M

Leadership Team

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Adam Mayer
SVP of Monetization
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