Principal Software Engineer, DevOps
Remote · USD 220,000-255,000 · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 220,000-255,000 · Base salary
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.
About the role
- The Principal Software Engineer, DevOps will build the tools, infrastructure, and services to create a secure, highly scalable, and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes-based cloud platform.
- This role involves maintaining the platform that enables other engineers to build AI agents safely, including managing sandboxed execution, scoped credentials, and cost controls.
- The SRE team is responsible for keeping Legion's workforce management platform running for customers through automation, observability, and incident management.
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 root-cause investigations.
- Develop automated operational runbooks.
- Support the deployment of Legion’s WFM solution during and off regular office hours.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Build and operate internal AI agents to reduce SRE toil, including incident triage, runbook execution, and alert enrichment.
- Own the platform for building agents, including tool/MCP integrations, cost controls, and agent observability.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or other SaaS operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience managing AWS services and cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- 3+ years of experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS.
- 5+ years of experience with at least one programming language (Go, Python, Bash, or Perl).
- 5+ years of experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management tools.
- Hands-on experience with Linux/Unix platforms (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, or Amazon Linux).
- Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems in production, including tool integrations, evaluation, and failure handling.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience with observability tools (Splunk, Nagios, Elasticsearch, Kibana, CloudWatch, Logstash).
- 3+ years of experience in AWS RDS or Aurora MySQL.
Preferred qualifications
- AWS Certification
Benefits
- $0 monthly premium medical, dental, and vision plans
- 401k plan
- Discretionary Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Stock Equity
- Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
- Monthly Lunch on Legion
Workplace
- Remote position based in the United States.
- Fully remote employer.
Skills
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Chef
- Jenkins
- Golang
- Docker
- AWS EKS
- HELM
- Python
- Bash
- Perl
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- Splunk
- Elasticsearch
- AWS RDS
