Remote – Latin America | Full-Time | Canals AI
About CanalsCanals 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 OpportunityOur 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 DoDesign, 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.
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.
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
Canals automates sales order entry, accounts payable, and purchasing workflows with the most accurate AI for distribution.
Speed up quoting, stay on top of order updates, pay smarter and win more business, all by eliminating the manual work that slows your employees down. Plus, unlock time for more strategic work like strengthening customer service and supplier relationships.
With pre-built ERP integrations and minimal setup, you can get up-and-running – and see immediate value – without taking up IT resources. As your teams use it, our AI models learn and adapt to your business, preserving tribal knowledge and getting more and more accurate.
Canals has revolutionized the day-to-day of sales and accounting teams at forward-thinking distributors, including United Electric, R.S. Hughes, and Puget Sound Pipe & Supply. Let’s chat about how you can use AI-powered automation to gain a competitive edge too.
