Kanary | Senior Backend Software Engineer | Seattle, Remote (US or Canada) | $150k base + generous equity
We’re building software to scrub your private info (home address, phone number, emails) off the public internet. We find and remove this data through large scale browser automation. We’ve raised over 1mm in preseed funding with top VCs (2048, First Star) and privacy-leaders (Mozilla Foundation, DuckDuckGo). Today we have thousands of paying customers, all without a single dollar of paid advertising.
We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to own the challenge of scaling our system in speed, quality and scope. You may be a fit if you have experience rapidly building APIs, managing Kubernetes deployments, solving n+1 queries, and/or scaling browser automation with our stack (AWS, Python/Django, and Go). Everyone at Kanary is involved in product development and experimentation, so you may also be a great fit if you have experience doing CTF challenges or growth engineering work.
Here are some of the things you might work on:
- Minimize QA time and code repetition by extending our templating language using Go.
- Experiment with novel approaches for anonymously traversing the web (captcha solving, browser fingerprinting, residential IPs). Embrace the cat and mouse game of working against the bad guys.
- Performance engineering - identify and implement optimizations across application code (API, serializers, data models), database and deployment configuration
Compensation depends on level, experience, and potential but we aim to be fair and competitive with equity and salary. If this sounds like fun, reach out to our founder, rachel[at]kanary.com.
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As added context for other folks considering whether or not to apply, in my case Rachel replied back adding: "I think we're looking for folks with more small team experience, specifically evidence of loving & thriving in a fast-paced startup with ambiguous problem solving challenges and lots of ownership."
I'm not entirely sure what that means (I applied with startup experience at a ~100 headcount company), but it might indicate preference is for folks coming from a sub-100 headcount stage of startups.
Thanks for sharing the feedback for folks here. Yes, we are looking for people who will thrive in an early startup. We're currently 5 people full time.
We’re building software to scrub your private info (home address, phone number, emails) off the public internet. We find and remove this data through large scale browser automation. We’ve raised over 1mm in preseed funding with top VCs (2048, First Star) and privacy-leaders (Mozilla Foundation, DuckDuckGo). Today we have thousands of paying customers, all without a single dollar of paid advertising.
We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to own the challenge of scaling our system in speed, quality and scope. You may be a fit if you have experience rapidly building APIs, managing Kubernetes deployments, solving n+1 queries, and/or scaling browser automation with our stack (AWS, Python/Django, and Go). Everyone at Kanary is involved in product development and experimentation, so you may also be a great fit if you have experience doing CTF challenges or growth engineering work.
Here are some of the things you might work on:
- Minimize QA time and code repetition by extending our templating language using Go. - Experiment with novel approaches for anonymously traversing the web (captcha solving, browser fingerprinting, residential IPs). Embrace the cat and mouse game of working against the bad guys. - Performance engineering - identify and implement optimizations across application code (API, serializers, data models), database and deployment configuration
Compensation depends on level, experience, and potential but we aim to be fair and competitive with equity and salary. If this sounds like fun, reach out to our founder, rachel[at]kanary.com.
To help our team respond to you fast, format your subject like: “HN Senior Backend Engineer”
Learn more about our company here! https://www.kanary.com/