Senior Production Engineer
Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania
JOB OVERVIEW
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
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.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
5-8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or SaaS production operations.
3+ years of hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS.
5+ years of experience with observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus, or similar.
3+ years experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, including managing complex multi-region deployments with module based configurations.
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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES
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.
ABOUT LEGION
Join Legions mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. Were a mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture thats collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, youll 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 proven 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, were making real change.
If youre 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 Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously.
Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and is designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of today's hourly employees. Our team is composed of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences, globally distributed across all time zones.
For more information, visit https://legion.co
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a hybrid employer in Bucharest, Romania, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data.
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:
Health Benefits
Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
Equity
Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
Meal Vouchers
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION
For individuals with disabilities who need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co
Legion is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender