Principal Software Engineer, DevOps

📋 Job Overview

Are you passionate about automation, DevOps, public cloud services, Kubernetes, and observability? As a site reliability 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 SRE team keeps Legion running for our customers.

🏢 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.

Legion Technologies delivers the industry’s most innovative workforce management platform. It enables businesses to maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. The award-winning, AI-driven Legion WFM platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric. It’s proven to deliver 13x ROI through schedule optimization, reduced attrition, increased productivity, and increased operational efficiency. Legion delivers cutting-edge technology in an easy-to-use platform and mobile app that employees love.

🎯 The Role

As a site reliability 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 SRE team keeps Legion running for our customers.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Support Legion’s public cloud platform, utilizing multiple cloud services and containerization
• Develop infrastructure automation leveraging Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, and Golang.
• Create and manage production alerts. Respond to alerts and conduct a root-cause investigation
• Develop automated operational runbooks
• Support the deployment of Legion’s WFM solution during and off regular office hours
• This role involves participation in on-call rotation
• Build and operate internal AI agents that reduce SRE toil — incident triage, runbook execution, alert enrichment, capacity and cost analysis — and own their guardrails, rollback, and reliability
• Own the platform that lets other engineers build agents safely: sandboxed execution, scoped credentials, tool/MCP integrations, cost controls, and agent observability

📌 Required Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in SRE, DevOps, or other SaaS operations.
• 3+ years of 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
• 5+ years experience with at least one programming language like Go, Python, Bash, Perl
• 5+ years experience with one or more Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, etc.), CI/CD pipelines (GIT, Jenkins, etc.), and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, etc).
• Hands-on experience with one or more Linux/Unix platforms like RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu/Amazon Linux.
• Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems in production — tool integrations, evaluation, and failure handling — beyond use of AI coding assistants
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Track record of introducing AI into an engineering org's SDLC with measurable results, and the judgment to name where it should not be used.
• 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

🎁 Benefits

Salary Range: Base Salary Range $220,000 - $255,000 + 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 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
• Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Legion is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran, disability status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.