Principal Software Engineer, DevOps

About this role

Principal Software Engineer, DevOps

Remote, United States

ABOUT POSITION:

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.

ROLES AND 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

BASIC QUALIFICATION:

• 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

OTHER QUALIFICATION:

• 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

COMPENSATION & 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 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 that allow 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 the internal equity for the same position within the company.

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

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.

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

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States, representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically, managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3,200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment, poor communication with employers, and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility, modern technology, and compelling work options. Legion’s mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legion’s Workforce…