Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering

Remote, US

ABOUT THIS JOB:

Are you passionate about automation, public-cloud services, Kubernetes, observability, and developer experience? As a Production Engineer at Legion you will be responsible for building the tools, infrastructure, and services to create a secure, highly-scalable and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes based cloud platform. You will be working with everything from infrastructure tooling, automation, build and deployment pipelines, monitoring and logging, containerization and more! Simply put, the Production Engineering team keeps Legion running for our customers.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Support Legion’s public cloud platform, utilizing multiple cloud services and containerization.
• Develop infrastructure automation leveraging Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, Argo, and Golang.
• Create and manage production alerts. Respond to alerts and conduct root-cause investigation.
• Develop and automate operational runbooks.
• Support the deployment of Legion’s WFM solution during and off regular office hours.
• This role involves participation in on-call rotation.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 to 8 years experience in SRE, DevOps, or other SaaS operations.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with managing AWS services and cloud infrastructure in AWS utilizing Terraform. AWS Certification preferred.
• 3+ years experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS. Familiarity with Helm charts.
• 3+ years experience with scaling production systems backed by RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle.
• 3+ years experience with at least one programming language like: Go, Rust, or Python.
• 3+ years experience with one or more Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Argo, etc), and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, etc).
• Hands-on experience with one or more Linux/Unix platforms like RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu/Amazon Linux.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3+ years of experience with observability tools: Splunk, Nagios, Elasticsearch, Kibana, CloudWatch, and Logstash and ways to scale these systems.
• 3+ years of experience in AWS RDS or Aurora MySQL.
• Demonstrated ability to work with remote teams.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range: Base Salary Range $150,000 - $200,000 + Stock Equity

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a fully remote employer, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. Our posted salary range is done so in good faith based on national data and may be refined for a candidate's region/town/cost of living. We strive to make competitive offers allowing employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. 

Benefits include, but are not limited to:

• $0 monthly premium and other flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective on the first day of employment
• 401k plan
• Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave 
• Equity 
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. We're a remote, mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture that's collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, you'll grow your skills, work closely with experienced executives, and contribute significantly to our mission.Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and provent to deliver 13x ROI. We help labor-intensive organizations maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Legion has earned recognition for its innovation, including spots on the Inc. 5000 list, Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and awards for our AI technology. Backed by leading investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, we're making real change.

If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY 

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