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Canals

DevOps Engineer

Posted 13 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Brazil
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Brazil
Senior level
Designs and maintains scalable AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code automation, observability systems, and security controls. The role owns uptime, deployment quality, reliability, and operational excellence while collaborating with backend engineers and product teams to optimize application performance. Responsibilities include managing cloud services, containerized systems, monitoring, alerting, logging, permissions, secrets, and network policies in a remote, fast-growing startup environment.
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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

Why Join Canals

We're building software that solves real problems for an industry that keeps the world running. Our customers rely on our platform every day to operate their businesses.

We've found strong product-market fit and continue to grow quickly, creating opportunities for people who want to have a meaningful impact on the trajectory of a company.

We believe great people build great companies. That's why we invest heavily in hiring, development, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do the best work of their careers.

You'll work alongside ambitious, thoughtful teammates who care deeply about what they do, challenge each other directly, and have a lot of fun along the way.

We value ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement. Good ideas can come from anywhere, and people are trusted to make things happen.

We're remote-first, flexible, and distributed across North and South America, bringing together talented people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.

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.

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