Legion is hiring a Senior Production Engineer to build and operate a secure, highly scalable, and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes-based cloud platform. You will work across infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production reliability to ensure our platform is reliable, scalable, and continuously improving.
What You'll 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 of common production issues.
- 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.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
What We're Looking For
- 5-8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or SaaS production operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS.
- Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- 3+ years of experience with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred); familiarity with Helm.
- 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 preferred.
Technical Stack
- AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Terraform, Go, Python, Helm
- CI/CD systems (Git-based workflows, Argo, Jenkins or similar)
- Linux/Unix
- GenAI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex)
Team & Environment
You'll join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, collaborating within a mission-driven, collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial culture focused on turning hourly jobs into good jobs.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $165,000 - $195,000 + equity
- $0 monthly premium and other flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective on the first day of employment
- 401k plan
- Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Equity
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
- Monthly Lunch on Legion
Work Mode
This is a remote position for candidates based in the United States.
Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status.
