About Us
Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by Canary's hospitality-specific AI platform.
Canary is utilized by 20,000+ hoteliers in 100+ countries to equip hoteliers with the technology they need to work smarter and wow their guests. Major hotel brands such as Wyndham, Marriott, IHG, Four Seasons, Rosewood, and Best Western trust Canary to deliver results.
Canary was named a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company and a HotelTechReport Best Place to Work — and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, F-Prime, Brighton Park Capital and Insight Partners.
Join us in shaping the future of hospitality!
About the Role
Our team is growing and we're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team and enable our next phase of growth. Canary's engineering team is fully remote!
This role focuses on building and scaling the cloud infrastructure that powers our platform. You will own the strategy for our AWS infrastructure, automation, and reliability practices while collaborating closely with engineering teams across the organization to keep our platform both secure and scalable.
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
Qualifications
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
