Senior DevOps Engineer

About Canals

Canals builds software for wholesale distributors, helping them operate more efficiently through automation and AI.

Our customers are the companies responsible for moving the materials that power the real economy; electrical supplies, plumbing products, roofing materials, HVAC equipment, and more. Every day, thousands of people rely on Canals to help process orders, manage purchasing, handle accounts payable, and streamline critical business workflows.

We're a profitable, rapidly growing company with a team of roughly 100 people distributed across North and South America. We care deeply about building great products, hiring exceptional people, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do the best work of their careers.

The Role

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 You'll Bring

• Typically, 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.