Principal Production Engineer (SRE)

The role

You will build and operate a secure, highly scalable, and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes-based cloud platform. The role involves infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production reliability.

What you will do

• Support and operate Legion’s AWS-based cloud platform and Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
• Leverage GenAI tools to accelerate infrastructure development, automation, and auto-remediation.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Develop automation and internal tooling using Go or Python.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment safety and velocity.
• Define and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability systems.
• Respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements.
• Develop and automate operational runbooks and remediation workflows.
• Support production deployments, including during off-hours as needed.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or SaaS production operations.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating large scale production workloads in AWS.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• 5+ years of experience with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in Go or Python (or similar programming language).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems (Git-based workflows, Argo, Jenkins or similar).
• Strong Linux/Unix systems experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus, or similar.
• Experience managing AWS RDS and/or Aurora MySQL including slow query analysis, replication, and upgrade operations.
• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs and reliability best practices.
• Experience working effectively with remote, distributed teams.
• Experience with supporting SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audits.
• AWS certification

Benefits

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Meal Vouchers

About the company

Legion is a mission-driven team with an AI-native workforce management platform. The company aims to turn hourly jobs into good jobs by maximizing labor efficiency and employee engagement.