Senior Production Engineer

Legion

5d • Remote

About The Position

Are you passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and reliability engineering? As a Senior Production Engineer (SRE) at Legion, you will 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. Simply put, the SRE team ensures Legion’s platform is reliable, scalable, and continuously improving for our customers.
This role includes participation in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 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 Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Support and operate Legion’s AWS-based cloud platform and Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
• Leverage GenAI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) 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.

Benefits

• $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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level