Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Canvas, a leading-edge AI and computer vision technology company revolutionizing the remodeling, architecture, and interior design industry, as an experienced Infrastructure Engineer. Reporting to the Platform Team Lead, you will play a key role in scaling, securing, and maintaining our business-critical systems. This role demands collaboration with various engineering teams to ensure high performance and resilience of our services. You will be responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and improving our infrastructure across diverse environments and services. Your expertise in Linux system administration, cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD systems, and infrastructure-as-code will be crucial. We are a global virtual-first company with a distributed team.

Requirements

• It’s a joy to communicate with you in both written and spoken English
• You have excellent knowledge of Linux, including performance tuning and security hardening
• You are experienced with cloud platforms (especially AWS) and their associated best practices
• You have strong knowledge of modern information security principles and how to apply them effectively
• You are comfortable working with multiple monitoring and observability tools, both cloud solutions and on-prem (e.g.: Prometheus and Grafana, NewRelic, Datadog, Etc)
• You have experience writing infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform
• You are proficient with Git and have experience working with GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• You have a good understanding of container technologies and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes
• You can write or maintain automation scripts and tooling in Python

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and improve our infrastructure across various environments and services
• Ensure reliability and uptime of our systems by developing robust observability and alerting practices
• Lead Linux system administration and hardening efforts to enhance security posture
• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure (AWS-focused), including compute, storage, and networking
• Own and enhance our CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab CI/CD)
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Participate in incident response and postmortems, ensuring learnings are translated into action
• Provide technical support and ongoing maintenance for infrastructure-related projects and initiatives
• Stay ahead of emerging security risks and proactively identify opportunities to improve our infrastructure security
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to support their infrastructure needs and deployments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability stacks
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters
• A passion for clean documentation and systems architecture clarity
• Experience supporting compliance and security audits through infrastructure best practices