DevOps Engineer

About Canals

Canals is a fully remote, profitable startup transforming the industrial supply chain ($10T industry) with AI. Our platform seamlessly integrates with the systems distributors already use, automating tedious tasks and reducing failure points in moving physical goods across the globe.

We’re a 70-person team (~45 in engineering), located across North and South America.

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

Why Join Canals

• We're profitable: stability without the chaos of venture pivots.

• Real-world impact: your work improves global supply chains, saving customers time and reducing waste.

• Strong engineering culture: we invest in quality and documentation to keep moving fast sustainably.

• Culture of ownership: moving fast while putting quality first

• Remote-first, flexible work environment across North and South America.

• Stellar product-market fit with tons of customer love

• All star team with diverse backgrounds to collaborate with and learn from

Canals.ai is an equal opportunity employer. In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with our principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age.