Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Remote – Latin America | Full-Time | Canals AI

About Canals

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.

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