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Driven, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $255,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Ubuntu (Operating System), CentOS, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Linux, DevOps, Elasticsearch, Perl (Programming Language), Mobile Application Software, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Nagios, Systems Development Life Cycle, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Cloud Services, Logstash, Ansible, Grafana, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Git, Amazon Relational Database Service, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Kibana, Terraform, Splunk, AWS EKS, Docker, Jenkins, Golang, Programming Languages - **Published:** September 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/principal-software-engineer-devops/11423752?handler=ApplyRedirect ## About the Role * 12+ years experience in SRE, DevOps, or other SaaS operations. * 3+ years of hands-on experience with managing AWS services and cloud infrastructure in AWS utilizing Terraform. AWS Certification preferred * 3+ years experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS EKS. Familiarity with HELM charts * 5+ years experience with at least one programming language like Go, Python, Bash, Perl * 5+ years experience with one or more Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, etc.), CI/CD pipelines (GIT, Jenkins, etc.), and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, etc). * Hands-on experience with one or more Linux/Unix platforms like RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu/Amazon Linux. * Hands-on experience building agentic AI systems in production - tool integrations, evaluation, and failure handling - beyond use of AI coding assistants * Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, * Track record of introducing AI into an engineering org's SDLC with measurable results, and the judgment to name where it should not be used. * 3+ years of experience with observability tools: Splunk, Nagios, Elasticsearch, Kibana, CloudWatch, and Logstash and ways to scale these systems. * 3+ years of experience in AWS RDS or Aurora MySQL * Demonstrated ability to work with remote teams ## Description Are you passionate about automation, DevOps, public cloud services, Kubernetes, and observability? As a site reliability engineer at Legion, you will be responsible for building the tools, infrastructure, and services to create a secure, highly scalable, and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes-based cloud platform. You will be working with everything from infrastructure tooling, automation, build and deployment pipelines, monitoring and logging, containerization, and more! Simply put, the SRE team keeps Legion running for our customers., * Support Legion's public cloud platform, utilizing multiple cloud services and containerization * Develop infrastructure automation leveraging Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, and Golang. * Create and manage production alerts. Respond to alerts and conduct a root-cause investigation * Develop automated operational runbooks * Support the deployment of Legion's WFM solution during and off regular office hours * This role involves participation in on-call rotation * Build and operate internal AI agents that reduce SRE toil - incident triage, runbook execution, alert enrichment, capacity and cost analysis - and own their guardrails, rollback, and reliability * Own the platform that lets other engineers build agents safely: sandboxed execution, scoped credentials, tool/MCP integrations, cost controls, and agent observability, 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., We 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. 3. With Whom We Share Personal Information We 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. ## Related Videos - [How a Small Team Shrank a Microsoft Monorepo by 94%](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1236-how-a-small-team-shrank-a-microsoft-monorepo-by-94) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Branch your database like your code: How schema changes and pull requests go hand in hand](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/350-branch-your-database-like-your-code-how-schema-changes-and-pull-requests-go-hand-in-hand) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development)