Senior Software Engineer

Canary Technologies

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling cloud infrastructure for Canary's hospitality software. Collaborating with engineering teams for AWS automation and reliability practices.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsFluxGoKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSTerraformKubernetesHelmArgoCDIstioPythonGoBashLinux

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringleadershipcapacity planningperformance tuningcost optimizationincident responsedocumentationdesign reviewscode reviews