Principal Production Engineer

Build and operate a secure, scalable AWS and Kubernetes cloud platform across infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering. The role includes on-call participation, production incident response, infrastructure-as-code, internal tooling, operational automation, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Serve as subject matter expert for the production infrastructure stack and software build pipelines
• Improve application security, stability, and responsiveness
• Train and mentor SRE team members
• Collaborate across teams on knowledge sharing and best practices
• Operate AWS-based cloud and Kubernetes environments
• Use GenAI tools to accelerate infrastructure automation and auto-remediation
• Build and maintain Terraform infrastructure-as-code
• Develop Go or Python automation and internal tooling
• Improve CI/CD pipelines for deployment safety and velocity
• Define monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
• Respond to incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements
• Develop automated operational runbooks and remediation workflows
• Support production deployments, including during off-hours

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or SaaS production operations
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating large-scale AWS production workloads
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience
• 5+ years with Docker and Kubernetes; EKS preferred and Helm familiarity
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar programming language
• Experience building and maintaining Git-based CI/CD systems using Argo, Jenkins, or similar tools
• Strong Linux or Unix systems experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Preferred: observability, AWS RDS or Aurora MySQL, SLI/SLO, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit, and AWS certification experience

Benefits

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion