Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. As a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data, you will be responsible for building the automation and tooling to manage Legion’s persistent storage including RDS MySQL, Redis, Aurora, Snowflake and S3. You will work as a key member of the Production Engineering team responsible for infrastructure tooling, automation, build and deployment pipelines, monitoring and logging, containerization, and more!

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent
• 5-8 years of MySQL database administration, or related operations and support experience
• 3+ years of experience working directly with AWS RDS MySQL services; AWS Certification preferred; strong knowledge of AWS services and security required
• 3+ Years Experience with at least one programming language such as Golang or Python
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing scalable database schemas and configurations, file system layout, physical partitioning, sharding and replication, incremental backups, restores, and recovery models
• Experience developing databases tooling with an Agile development process including scrums, backlog grooming, retrospectives and demos
• Deep understanding of systems performance of MySQL, and advanced knowledge of MySQL internals
• 3+ years of experience working directly with AWS RDS MySQL services; AWS Certification preferred; strong knowledge of AWS services and security required
• Identification and contact information, and related identifiers such as full name, date and place of birth, citizenship and permanent residence, home and business addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses
• Professional or employment-related information, including: Recruitment, employment, or engagement information such as application forms and information included in a resume, cover letter, or otherwise provided through any application or engagement process; and copies of identification documents, such as driver’s licenses, passports, and visas
• Education Information such as institutions attended, degrees, certifications, training courses, publications, and transcript information

Responsibilities

• Support Legion’s public cloud platform databases, leveraging AWS RDS MySQL, Redis and other cloud services
• Develop infrastructure automation leveraging Terraform, Python and Golang
• Create and manage production database alerts. Respond to alerts and conduct root-cause investigation
• Investigate data layer issues and general performance tuning
• Lead FinOps for the data storage systems
• Support the deployment of Legion’s WFM solution during and off regular office hours
• This role involves participation in on-call rotation

Benefits

• Competitive offers allowing the new employee room for future growth
• Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills