**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.