Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by Canary's hospitality-specific AI platform. The role focuses on building and scaling the cloud infrastructure that powers the platform, owning the strategy for AWS infrastructure, automation, and reliability practices.
Responsibilities
- Architect and manage AWS infrastructure, balancing performance, cost, and reliability
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform to ensure repeatable, version-controlled deployments
- Design and operate CI/CD and GitOps pipelines on Kubernetes, including Helm-based deployments managed through ArgoCD, that enable teams to ship safely and frequently
- Manage service-to-service traffic, observability, and security using a service mesh such as Istio
- Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and cost-optimization efforts across the AWS footprint
- Implement observability, alerting, and incident-response practices to meet reliability and uptime targets
- Drive security standards into infrastructure, including IAM, network segmentation, and secrets management
- Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and document architecture decisions and runbooks
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on time with AWS infrastructure
- Deep expertise with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
- Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container runtimes (e.g., containerd) in production environments
- Experience packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications with Helm charts
- Experience with GitOps continuous delivery using ArgoCD (or similar tools like Flux)
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies, particularly Istio, for traffic management and observability
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, or Bash) for automation and tooling
- Solid understanding of networking, Linux systems, distributed systems, and cloud security principles
- Experience designing for high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region or multi-account architectures
- Strong communication skills and a track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction
Benefits
- Canary Days: As a company we want to ensure that the team has time to recharge. Each month we provide company wide days off to ensure there is at least one extended weekend or day off.
- Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. Each individual is provided a budget towards any purchases that help us achieve these goals.
- Professional Development Chats: We provide budget to help drive cross functional professional development conversations across the organization.
- Travel Reimbursement: Team members are able to visit our offices across New York, San Francisco or Dallas when they choose, and are provided a travel stipend for doing so. Spend time working with the team in their office, and use the rest of your time exploring a new city!
- Personal Travel Reimbursement: If you stay at a hotel that Canary works with, we provide a credit towards your stay.
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