Sr. Cloud Database Engineer, SRE

Remote - US

About Legion

Legion is looking for world-class talent to help with our mission of turning hourly jobs into good jobs with Legion's AI-Powered Workforce Management platform.

In our modern economy, hourly workers want gig-like flexibility, mobile-first technology, and compelling work options. They want to use a mobile phone app to schedule work, not haggle with their manager over schedule changes every week. Employers increasingly need a flexible and efficient labor model that supports retail innovations that customers demand. There's a huge opportunity to modernize and upgrade how hourly workers interact with their managers while enabling employers to be flexible, efficient, and innovative. But no one has cracked the code – until now. Enter Legion.

Legions's cloud-native platform accurately forecasts demand, computes precise labor needs, and schedules the right employees at the right times based on employee skills and preferences.

Legion is a remote friendly organization with headquarters in Redwood City, California and was recently included on JMP Securities' Hot 100 List of the Best Privately Held Software Companies.

About this Position:

Are you passionate about databases, persistent storage, automation, public-cloud database services, containerization and observability? As a Cloud Database Engineer in the SRE organization at Legion, you will be responsible for building the automation and tooling to manage Legion's persistent storage including RDS MySQL, Redis, Aurora and S3. You will be responsible for a core layer of Legion's secure, highly-scalable and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes based cloud platform. You will be working as a key member of the SRE team responsible for infrastructure tooling, automation, build and deployment pipelines, monitoring and logging, containerization and more! Simply put, the SRE team keeps Legion running for our customers.

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

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.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range: $160,000 - $190,000

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a fully remote employer, Legion determines pay for positions using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. Our posted salary range is done so in good faith based on national data and may be refined for a candidate's region/town/cost of living. 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:

• $0 monthly premium and other flexible medical, dental, and vision plans effective on the first day of employment
• 401k plan
• Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion

ABOUT LEGION

Legion is seeking world-class talent to help us capitalize on a massive opportunity to enable the future of work for the 2.7 billion-person strong hourly workforce. Legion powers the future of work by redefining how companies manage and empower their hourly workforces. Legion's autonomous, AI-powered Workforce Management platform enables companies to tightly manage labor spend while ensuring great experiences for their employees and customers. The software accurately forecasts demand, computes precise labor needs, and staffs the right employees at the right times based on employee skills and preferences. These uncertain times also require healthy workplace features that automate the scheduling of healthy employees and offer immediate response protocols in the event symptoms are detected. These capabilities and more are already built directly into Legion.

Legion's modern cloud platform pairs cutting edge machine learning, artificial intelligence, and beautiful interfaces to deliver over 10x return on investment. Legion was founded by Sanish Mondkar, the former Chief Product Officer of SAP, and serves many innovative customers including Dollar General, Five Below, Panda Express, Cinemark, and Vail Resorts. Legion has been recognized by Gartner, and was recently included on JMP Securities' Hot 100 List of the Best Privately Held Software Companies. Legion is backed by preeminent venture firms such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, and XYZ Ventures, and is based in Palo Alto, California.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

The hourly workforce currently constitutes almost 60% of the overall labor market in the United States and these nearly 80 million hourly workers are the driving force behind many of our largest domestic industries like food/beverage, retail and hospitality. Management of this workforce has historically been difficult due to high churn (average of 60%), high cost of replacement (average of $3,200 per employee in retail) and now new challenges are developing as millennials enter this market. The retail vertical alone spends $62 billion dollars a year on replacing workers and over 50% of hourly workers leave their jobs because of flexibility reasons.

In our modern, Uber-ized times, younger folks seek gig-like flexibility, modern mobile first technology and compelling work options. They want to use an app on their phone to schedule work, not haggle with the manager over their schedule on a week to week basis. Likewise, employers are increasingly in need of a flexible and efficient labor model that supports the innovations (think pop up stores, home delivery, mobile ordering, service options etc) needed, and frankly demanded, by today's modern customers. Mid market organizations have never had a technology platform to manage their hourly workers and the enterprise is mired in decades old technology (think Kronos, Infor) that's both user unfriendly and wildly ineffective for managing today's modern hourly workforce. There is a huge opportunity to modernize and upgrade how hourly workers interact with their employers and while enabling employers to be elastic, efficient and innovative...but no one has cracked the code until now.

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 receive considerations 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 that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co.