Our mission:

At Kanary, we’re building tools to protect people from the next generation of online threats. Cybersecurity has always been adversarial, but the rise of AI-driven attacks has made them more personal and more automated. That’s why we focus on monitoring and removing personal data, putting privacy and security back in the hands of individuals.

The consumer security industry hasn’t kept up. While bad actors and powerful platforms exploit personal data, most solutions offer false peace of mind with 'set it and forget it' tools that don't work. People want transparency, action, and control. Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about giving people agency.

If you're excited to help close the growing gap in online protection for millions, we want to talk to you.

How you'll help achieve it:

We’ve built a set of systems unique to our development environment. You'll help shape hypotheses, track core metrics, and work to move them. We delete code. If something fails, we learn, and then we clean it up. We aim for tech debt to be actionable. We celebrate this ratio on a pull request.

Building the best product and experience for our members is always the goal. Weekly scoping is hands on and collaborative, not top down. You'll work directly with customers in our Discord server to get feedback, share ideas, and fix bugs.

We run quarterly in-person off sites. Living in an Airbnb together for a few days is a stretch of no-distractions time. You'll be able to voice what's holding us back, workshop solutions, and start implementing change immediately with the entire team. Balanced with a flexible and autonomous remote work culture, off sites give us a taste of the silicon valley hacker house without the burn out.

You’ll be architecting and building a system that is rigid enough to provide economies of scale but flexible enough to support infinite integrations. This is an investment in proprietary technology and proprietary data that creates leverage to build better and better systems.

Comp/Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Generous founders equity

• Healthcare stipend

• 2-3 meeting free days per week

• Unlimited vacation, 4 weeks encouraged + scheduled team mental health days

• Quarterly in-person off-sites (fully paid) with nice views

Next steps

• Email [email protected]. Include links to past work & what excites you about Kanary.

• Intro with Founder

• Intro with Engineering Lead

• Programming interview

• Team exercise

• Paid 2-5 day project with the team (can be nights/weekend if you need the flexibility)

• Offer

We are moving quickly and this process takes ~3 weeks.

Please only reach out if you are located in the US and have work authorization.

What is Kanary?

Kanary is a digital privacy and security platform for individuals, nonprofits, and enterprises. We combine proprietary technology with a U.S.-based team of privacy experts to continuously identify where personal information is exposed online, remove it, and prevent future leaks. Kanary helps you prevent and respond to stalking, harassment, doxxing, and deepfakes.

Who is behind Kanary?

Kanary is a female founded and owned technology company, started by Rachel Vrabec. Our origins trace back to data science work supporting the 2016 US presidential campaigns. From there we were pulled into supporting candidate and staff safety. The security breaches and personal privacy violations of that time inspired the beginnings of the company. After receiving a grant from Y Combinator, we launched Kanary in 2020 and participated in Mozilla's accelerator. In 2022, we raised a seed investment and have been growing the company sustainably since. Our core team manages all aspects of the service, support, and technology and we collaborate directly with members on our Reddit, LinkedIn, Discord, and via email.

Your role:

Software engineering is critical to how Kanary supports thousands of members and millions of privacy requests every year. Our team is highly technical, and you will have a lot of support as you learn our systems and help improve them. Your day-to-day will include executing quickly on clearly defined engineering tasks, reviewing the data from our automated systems, figuring out why data is not being removed according to US Privacy law, and updating our systems to make sure our customers are protected as quickly as possible. You will embed fully into the software engineering, data science, and research groups on the team, be a core part of system design, propose improvements, and get exposure to the daily operations of a highly scalable, cost-functional startup.

You must be able to work quickly in a modern codebase (JavaScript/TypeScript or Python), administrative workflows, and task management systems. And you must be proficient in understanding and analyzing our outputs and how they relate to the overall function of the system. Experience with web automation (Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium) or our mobile stack (Swift, Kotlin) is a plus though not expected or required.

The Kanary team is tight knit and fast moving. Communication skills are critical as you work through your projects and share your learnings with the team. The role is fully remote, so you should feel comfortable tracking your own tasks in a system like Notion, using Slack to troubleshoot or problem solve, and have a consistently stable internet connection for joining team meetings. Our team has an open culture with very little hierarchy, this means you have plenty of opportunities to share ideas, voice issues, and learn from startup and security veterans.

This role is an entry-level internship on our team, with room to grow into full-time positions for the right person. This role is an entry-level internship on our team, projected to take place from late Sept/early Oct to Dec., with room to grow into full-time positions for the right person. Rising juniors/seniors as well as new grads out of school are encouraged to apply.

Role Details:

• Employment Type: 1099 Contractor

• Commitment: Full time and part time schedules available

• Location: Fully Remote (Flexible)

• Focus: Web automation, data pipelines, and system reliability

Comp/Benefits:

• Competitive hourly rate (based on experience)

• Flexible schedule and autonomous work culture

• Opportunity to work with a mission-driven team

• Potential for growth into a full-time role within a fast-growing startup

Next steps:

Email [email protected]. Please include your resume, any relevant projects or a portfolio, and a brief note on why you're excited about helping people protect their privacy. Our interview process consists of an initial phone screen, 1-2 technical rounds, and then an offer decision. We are moving quickly, and the process typically takes ~3-4 weeks.

What is Kanary?

Kanary is a digital privacy and security platform for individuals, nonprofits, and enterprises. We combine proprietary technology with a U.S.-based team of privacy experts to continuously identify where personal information is exposed online, remove it, and prevent future leaks. Kanary helps you prevent and respond to stalking, harassment, doxxing, and deepfakes.

Who is behind Kanary?

Kanary is a female founded and owned technology company, started by Rachel Vrabec. Our origins trace back to data science work supporting the 2016 US presidential campaigns. From there we were pulled into supporting candidate and staff safety. The security breaches and personal privacy violations of that time inspired the beginnings of the company. After receiving a grant from Y Combinator, we launched Kanary in 2020 and participated in Mozilla's accelerator. In 2022, we raised a seed investment and have been growing the company sustainably since. Our core team manages all aspects of the service, support, and technology and we collaborate directly with members on our Reddit, LinkedIn, Discord, and via email.

Your role:

Data analytics is critical to how Kanary supports thousands of members and millions of privacy requests every year. Our team is highly technical, and you will have a lot of support as you learn our systems and help improve them. Your day-to-day will include reviewing the data from our automated systems, figuring out why data is not being removed according to US Privacy law, and working with engineers to update our systems to make sure our customers are protected as quickly as possible.

You should be comfortable writing queries with SQL and running basic data analyses with Python to answer business-relevant questions. You must be able to work quickly in spreadsheets, administrative workflows, and task management systems. And you must be proficient in understanding and analyzing data trends to suggest how to better improve the overall outcomes of our ecosystem. Proficiency in statistics is preferred.

The Kanary team is tight knit and fast moving. Communication skills are critical as you work through your projects and share your learnings with the team. The role is fully remote, so you should feel comfortable tracking your own tasks in a system like Notion, using Slack to troubleshoot ambiguity or problem solve, and have a consistently stable internet connection for joining team meetings. Our team has an open culture with very little hierarchy, this means you have plenty of opportunities to share ideas, voice issues, and learn from startup and security veterans.

This role is an entry-level internship on our team projected to take place from late Sept/early Oct to Dec., with room to grow into full-time positions for the right person. Rising juniors/seniors as well as new grads out of school are encouraged to apply.

Role Details:

• Employment Type: 1099 Contractor

• Commitment: Full time and part-time schedules available

• Location: Fully Remote (Flexible)

• Focus: Data integrity, reporting, and operational insights

Comp/Benefits:

• Competitive hourly rate (based on experience)

• Flexible schedule and autonomous work culture

• Opportunity to work with a mission-driven team

• Potential for growth into a full-time role within a fast-growing startup

Next steps:

Email [email protected]. Please include your resume, any relevant projects or a portfolio, and a brief note on why you're excited about helping people protect their privacy. Our interview process consists of an initial phone screen, 1-2 technical rounds, and then an offer decision. We are moving quickly, and the process typically takes ~3-4 weeks.