Senior Platform Engineer

About Legit Security

Legit Security is a fast-growing cybersecurity startup backed by world-class VCs - Cyberstarts, Bessemer, TCV and CRV. We operate in the rapidly expanding market of software supply chain security, protecting modern development environments against evolving threats.

Our mission is clear: help organizations ship software faster and more securely by embedding trust, resilience, and intelligence into the development life – cycle. We are not only building a category-defining SaaS platform but also leading global initiatives that shape the future of software security.

What we’re building

We develop a cloud-native SaaS platform with a highly available microservices architecture, leveraging the latest in AI, automation, and agent-based systems to secure the modern SDLC pipeline. Our solutions empower engineering teams to move quickly while staying compliant and secure.

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer who can join quickly, operate independently, and deliver high quality work. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and improving our cloud and Kubernetes based platform using industry standard tooling and modern DevOps practices

About you

• Expert level knowledge of Kubernetes internals and AWS services (EKS, IAM, VPC, networking, autoscaling, security, cost management).
• Strong hands on experience with IaC and GitOps workflows (Terraform, Crossplane, Pulumi, ArgoCD or FluxCD).
• Proven industry experience with production grade tooling (Helm, Docker, ArgoCD or FluxCD, CI/CD pipelines).
• Solid programming skills, preferably Python and Go, including experience writing production grade services, scripts, automations, and operators.

Additional Senior Level Requirements

• Ability to independently design and implement platform architecture end to end, including networking, observability, security, and reliability.
• Strong understanding of cloud native patterns (operators, CRDs, service meshes, sidecars, admission controllers).
• Hands on experience with monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong background in CI/CD design and maintenance (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Working knowledge of container security and platform hardening (image scanning, SBOMs, supply chain security, IAM best practices).
• Experience running and optimizing multi environment infrastructure (development, staging, production) with clear operational processes.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across networking, Kubernetes, cloud services, and application layers.
• Familiarity with incident management, on call rotations, SRE principles, and building reliable autom