Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data

at  Legion

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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 Experience working with private and public clouds (IAAS, GCP, AWS, etc) and capacity management, cost optimization principles.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

2+ years of experience in the following:

• AWS Aurora or Dynamo
• Orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Working knowledge of containerization (Docker).
• Source control management such as Git, GitHub
• Cloud infrastructure automation such as Terraform
• Knowledge of web servers and Cloud load balancers such as Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, HA-Proxy, AWS ELB/NLB.

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.Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and has 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, we’re making real change. 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.

ROLE 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

This Policy does not apply to our handling of data gathered about you in your role as a user of our consumer-facing services. When you interact with us as in that role, the Legion Privacy Policy applies.

• TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HANDLEWe collect, store, and use various types of personal information through the application and recruitment process. We collect such information either directly from you or (where applicable) from another person or entity, such as an employment agency or consultancy, background check provider, or other referral sources. This information includes:
• 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, and such information about your beneficiaries or emergency contacts.
• 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; and background screening results and references.
• Career information such as job titles; work history; work dates and work locations; information about skills, qualifications, experience, publications, speaking engagements, and preferences; and professional memberships
• Education Information such as institutions attended, degrees, certifications, training courses, publications, and transcript information.
• Legally protected classification information such as race, sex/gender, religious/ philosophical beliefs, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service, nationality, ethnicity, request for family care leave, political opinions, and criminal history.
• Other information such as any information you voluntarily choose to provide in connection with your job application.
• HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATIONWe collect, use, share, and store personal information from job applicants for our and our service providers’ business and operational purposes in the recruitment process such as: processing your application, tracking your application through the recruitment process, contacting references with your authorization, conducting background checks you authorize, and making hiring decisions. We will also use job applicant information for internal analysis purposes to understand the applicants who apply and to improve our recruitment process. We may sometimes need to use applicant information for legal purposes, such as in connection with any challenges made to our hiring decisions.
• WITH WHOM WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATIONWe will disclose job applicant personal information to the following types of entities or in the following circumstances (where applicable):
• Internally: to other Legion personnel involved in the recruiting and hiring process.
• Vendors: such as technology service providers, travel management providers, human resources suppliers, background check companies, and employment agencies or recruiters, where applicable.
• Legal Compliance: when required to do so by law, regulation, or court order or in response to a request for assistance by the police or other law enforcement agency.
• Litigation Purposes: to seek legal advice from our external lawyers or in connection with litigation with a third party.
• Business Transaction Purposes: in connection with the sale, purchase, or merger.
• How to Contact Us About this Policy – If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact privacy@legion.co