DevOps Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: Colombia, Argentina, Brazil

Employment Type: FullTime

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 an 80-person team (~50 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

• 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.