Director of Engineering, Cloud Application Platform

Legion; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Director of Engineering for their Cloud Application Platform. This role involves leading cross-functional teams to design and develop cloud-native solutions while managing a remote engineering team. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in cloud applications and team management, alongside a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, including stock equity and flexible health plans.

Benefits

$0 monthly premium health plans

401k plan

Discretionary Paid Time Off

Equity

Monthly Wellness Reimbursement

Monthly Lunch on Legion

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in cloud platform design and development.
• 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering large-scale applications using Java.
• 5+ years of remote team management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and evolution of cloud-native application platform.
• Hire and manage engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration.
• Ensure platform meets security and compliance standards.

Skills

Cloud platform design

Java

Spring Boot

Observability platforms

Team management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

Director of Engineering, Cloud Application Platform

Remote, United States

About this Position

Are you passionate about building application platforms that empower product engineering teams to move faster and more confidently? At Legion, we are seeking a Director of Engineering, Cloud Application Platform to lead the design, development, and evolution of our cloud-native application platform that power all of Legion’s product teams. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our platform provides reusable services, APIs, and tools that empower product teams to deliver features rapidly and reliably, while meeting the highest standards of scalability and security

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll spend ~30–40% of your time contributing to design and code, and the rest driving vision, roadmap, and cross-team adoption

Responsibilities

• Hire and build a globally-distributed engineering team. Build, mentor, and manage a team of talented cloud platform engineers. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team.
• Own the platform roadmap: Define, prioritize, and deliver core platform features that accelerate product delivery (e.g. developer self-service, service templates, reusable APIs, observability, security guardrails).
• Define and measure engineering OKRs.
• Contribute to design and implementation in Java when needed, ensuring best practices and setting technical direction.
• Stay abreast of the latest cloud technologies, trends, and best practices. Provide technical guidance and thought leadership to the team.
• Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of security, compliance, and data protection. Implement and maintain robust security measures and protocols.
• Interface with customer success and implementation teams to resolve customer issues.
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members.

Required Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in cloud platform design and development.
• 8+ years of experience architecting and delivering large-scale cloud application platforms using Java, Spring Boot, and relational databases such as MySQL
• 5+ years of experience leveraging observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus) to measure and improve platform adoption, performance, and reliability.
• 5+ years of experience with data modeling and relational databases.
• 3+ years of experience managing fully remote teams in a startup environment.
• Demonstrated experience in design and implementation of a scalable cloud or mobile solution.
• Demonstrated experience in timely delivery of a product to market with understanding on customer rollout.
• Proven track record of using problem-solving / root cause analysis.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; Masters degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leveraging industry-leading next-generation technology, including public cloud services.
• 5+ years of experience leading scrum teams (as scrum master or other role).
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes or other containerization/orchestration platforms.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range: Base Salary Range $220,000 - $263,000 + Bonus +Stock Equity

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a fully remote employer, pay for positions is determined 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
• Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion

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.

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 be considered 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.