Senior Elasticsearch Engineer
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Senior Elasticsearch Engineer managing Elasticsearch and OpenSearch infrastructure at Chess.com. Owning the full data platform lifecycle with a focus on performance, reliability, and cross-team enablement.
Responsibilities:
- Own the full lifecycle of our search and analytics data platform: capacity planning, cluster architecture, performance tuning, incident response, migration strategy, and operational excellence.
- Be the single point of deep expertise across all Elasticsearch and OpenSearch clusters at Chess.com.
- Hands-on with cluster internals, write ILM/ISM policies, push infrastructure changes through GitOps, and make real-time decisions about replica allocation when a cluster goes red.
- On-call ownership for Elasticsearch-related incidents: cluster health degradation, node loss, disk pressure, shard imbalance, and write rejection cascades.
- Real-time cluster triage and cross-team coordination during production incidents.
- Post-mortem authoring and systemic reliability improvements.
- Snapshot and disaster recovery management across clusters.
- Advise engineering teams on index design, mapping strategy, retention policies, and query optimization.
- Manage Kibana and OpenSearch Dashboards access and configuration for internal consumers.
- Define and maintain workload priority tiers across clusters.
Requirements:
- 7+ years operating Elasticsearch at scale (multi-TB clusters, dozens of nodes, high write throughput)
- Deep understanding of Elasticsearch internals: segment merging, translog, shard allocation, and cluster state management
- Production experience with ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes) or equivalent operator-based deployments
- Proficiency with Kubernetes operations for stateful workloads (StatefulSets, persistent storage, resource management)
- Hands-on Linux systems administration with a focus on storage and I/O performance
- Experience managing both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch in production, including an informed opinion on their respective trade-offs
- Incident command experience: ability to diagnose and mitigate cluster emergencies under pressure while communicating clearly to stakeholders
- Git-based infrastructure management (GitOps): Helm charts, ArgoCD/Flux, infrastructure-as-code for cluster configuration
- Fluency with the Elastic stack APIs: cluster administration, index templates, data streams, ILM policies, snapshot/restore.
Benefits:
- Full autonomy.
- Real scale.
- Bare metal.
- Strategic impact.
- Small team, big trust.
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