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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,

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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

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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.

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

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

We also work hard to ensure Canary is a fun and exciting place to work! Here are some of the additional 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.

Canary Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote talent regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.