Principal Production Engineer
Hybrid, Bangalore or Pune, India
JOB OVERVIEW
Are you passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and reliability engineering? As a Principal Production Engineer 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
- Serve as subject matter expert for the entire production infrastructure stack and software build pipelines.
- Work independently on initiatives to improve security, stability, and responsiveness of Legion’s applications.
- Train and mentor other members of the team.
- Collaborate across teams to share knowledge and best practices widely within the Legion organization.
- 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
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or SaaS production operations.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience operating large scale production workloads in AWS.
- Solid experience
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