DevOps Engineer

Canals is a bootstrapped, profitable startup transforming wholesale distribution—a trillion-dollar industry—with AI. Our platform integrates directly with the systems distributors already use, automating tedious workflows and removing failure points in the global movement of physical goods.

We’re a 50-person, fully remote team (35 in engineering) spread across North and South America, operating at millions in ARR and scaling quickly without outside funding.

The Opportunity
Our customer base and data scale are growing rapidly. To keep pace, we’re expanding our infrastructure and automation capabilities. We need a senior-level DevOps engineer who can build and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable systems to support continuous delivery, monitoring, and growth—while collaborating closely with engineers and product teams.

What You’ll Do
Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS) to support Canals’ platform at scale.

Improve CI/CD pipelines for faster, safer, and more consistent deployments.

Automate infrastructure provisioning and system configuration using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.

Develop and manage observability systems for logging, monitoring, and alerting.

Strengthen our security posture and ensure reliability across environments.

Collaborate with backend engineers to optimize application performance and scalability.

Own uptime, deployment quality, and operational excellence as we scale.

What We’re Looking For
5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Strong experience with AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM).

Expertise with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Proficiency in Docker and container orchestration (ECS or Kubernetes).

Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).

Experience securing systems and managing secrets, permissions, and network policies.

Strong communication skills and comfort working remotely in a fast-moving, product-focused environment.

Prior experience in high-growth startups or small teams is a plus.

Why Join Canals
Bootstrapped & profitable: stable growth without investor pressure.

Real-world impact: your work directly improves how global supply chains move goods.

Ownership: broad technical autonomy and the chance to shape how we scale.

Engineering culture: we value quality, documentation, and pragmatic automation.

Remote-first flexibility: collaborate across North & South America with async freedom.

Massive opportunity: modernize an overlooked trillion-dollar sector using AI.