Canary Technologies
Hospitality Technology
SeniorPlatformSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Platform Software Engineer at Canary Technologies. Skills: AWS infrastructure, Infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD. Architect AWS infrastructure. Manage AWS infrastructure”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering experience, Substantial hands-on AWS infrastructure, Deep expertise Terraform, Working knowledge Kubernetes, Experience packaging Kubernetes applications, Experience with GitOps continuous delivery, Proficiency Python, Go, or Bash, Solid understanding networking, Solid understanding Linux systems, Solid understanding distributed systems, Solid understanding cloud security principles, Experience designing high availability, Experience designing disaster recovery, Experience designing multi-region architectures, Experience designing multi-account architectures, Communication skills, Track record mentoring engineers, Track record influencing technical direction
Nice to Have
Container runtimes experience, Helm charts experience, ArgoCD experience, Flux experience, Service mesh technologies experience, Istio experience
What You'll Do.
Architect AWS infrastructure
Manage AWS infrastructure
Build infrastructure-as-code
Maintain infrastructure-as-code
Design CI/CD pipelines
Operate CI/CD pipelines
Design GitOps pipelines
Operate GitOps pipelines
Manage service-to-service traffic
Lead capacity planning
Lead performance tuning
Lead cost-optimization efforts
Implement observability
Implement incident-response practices
Drive security standards
Conduct design reviews
Document architecture decisions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with engineering teams
Full Job Description
## Description 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 segmentat
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