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About the role
Chess.com is looking for a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to manage high-throughput data streams and bare-metal performance optimization.
The role focuses on Incident Response, Reliability, and long-term migration strategy from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch.
What you'll do
- Manage shard allocation strategy for write-heavy data streams at high throughput.
- Perform disk watermark management, retention policy tuning, and rollover orchestration.
- Execute performance optimization and I/O tuning on bare-metal nodes.
- Conduct write queue analysis, thread pool diagnostics, and shard rebalancing under load.
- Provide on-call ownership for Elasticsearch-related incidents including node loss and write rejection cascades.
- Author post-mortems and implement systemic reliability improvements.
- Lead Elasticsearch-to-OpenSearch migration analysis and execution.
- Advise engineering teams on index design, mapping strategy, and query optimization.
What they're looking for
- Experience with capacity planning and growth forecasting across clusters.
- Expertise in real-time cluster triage and cross-team coordination during production incidents.
- Experience with version upgrade planning and rolling restart orchestration with zero-downtime requirements.
- Ability to manage Snapshot and disaster recovery across clusters.
- Capability to define and maintain workload priority tiers across clusters.
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