Think about your last hotel stay. Did you skip the front desk line with mobile check-in? Message the staff for extra pillows? Order a late-night snack with a tap on your phone? Then you’ve likely run into Canary in the wild.
Canary Technologies is the leading agentic AI platform for hotel and guest management, powering the digital infrastructure for more than 20,000 hotels in 125+ countries. The world's most renowned hospitality brands, including Marriott International, Four Seasons and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, partner with us to increase revenue, improve operations and elevate the guest experience.
We’ve executed the largest deployment of autonomous AI systems in hospitality, building technology that fundamentally redefines how guests and hotels interact. It’s made us one of the top-funded hotel technology companies in the world, with nearly $200M raised to date.
Canary has been recognized as a 2024 and 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, and swept the 2026 HotelTechAwards, including Best Place to Work, #1 Guest Experience Platform, and the Hotelier’s Choice Award. We’re scaling our team to bring innovation to life faster than ever.
We're growing quickly, and we're looking for people who are passionate about their work, want to grow with us and are ready to take on more responsibility along the way. We value rigor and velocity in equal measure: high standards, fast pace, real ownership. If that's the environment you're looking for, this is the place for you.
Come join us! Let’s shape the future of hospitality together.
Canary Technologies is hiring a Lead Security Engineer to lead our Security team within the Platform organization. This is a player-coach role: you'll manage and grow a small team of security engineers while owning Canary's security and compliance program end to end, including our control framework, audits, policies, and risk posture across a platform that handles guest data and payments for thousands of hotels worldwide. You'll also be Canary's primary security voice to customers, partners, and auditors, translating our security posture for everyone from a hotel group's CISO to our own executive team. You should be as comfortable running an audit and presenting to a customer's security team as you are reviewing a threat model with engineers.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, coach, and grow the Security team, including hiring, performance, priorities, and career development
- Own Canary's security and compliance program (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, and other applicable frameworks)
- Serve as the primary security point of contact for Canary
- Own vendor and third-party risk management
- Write, maintain, and communicate security policies and standards company-wide; run security awareness and training
- Set technical direction for security tooling and stay hands-on in architecture and threat-model reviews
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years in security engineering, including 2+ years leading a team as a manager or tech lead
- Proven experience owning compliance programs end to end (SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or similar)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication
- Hands-on technical foundation in cloud security (AWS), identity and access management, application security, and vulnerability management
- Experience with vendor risk management and reviewing security terms in customer and vendor contracts
- Track record of building pragmatic, risk-based security programs at a growth-stage SaaS company
- Nice to have: hospitality, fintech, or payments industry experience; CISSP, CISM, or CISA
We work hard to make Canary a fun, rewarding, and high-energy place to work. Here’s how we take care of our flock:
Time Off
- Unlimited PTO: Take the time you need to truly rest and recharge.
- Holidays + Canary Days: Standard holidays plus monthly company-wide days off for a guaranteed long weekend.
- Birthday Holiday: A dedicated day off to celebrate you!
Travel & Office Flexibility
- Office Exchange: A travel stipend to visit the team in person at our SF, NY, or Dallas hubs.
- Canary Hotel Experience: Staying at a Canary hotel? We’ve got you covered with a credit toward your stay.
- Preferred Hotels Discount: Enjoy a minimum 30% off the best available rate at select partner hotels globally.
Growth & Community
- Self Improvement Club: A monthly budget to help you smash your personal goals.
- Professional Development: Level up your career with a dedicated learning stipend to fuel your skills and cross-functional connection.
- Referral Program: Help us grow the flock and score a cash bonus for successful hires.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering
- 2+ years leading a security team as a manager or technical lead
- End-to-end ownership of compliance programs such as SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, or ISO 27001
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud security, identity and access management, application security, and vulnerability management
- Experience with vendor risk management and reviewing security terms in customer and vendor contracts
- Experience building risk-based security programs at a growth-stage SaaS company
- Hospitality, fintech, or payments industry experience
- CISSP, CISM, or CISA certification
Canary Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Canary Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Canary Technologies.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company materials highlight travel stipends, hotel stay credits, stocked kitchens, and programs like a Self-Improvement Club and professional development budgets, indicating lifestyle-oriented perks beyond core coverage. Regular team events and hospitality-related discounts further reinforce a focus on day-to-day wellbeing.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited vacation and sick/public holidays are advertised alongside monthly company-wide “Canary Days” and a paid birthday holiday. This combination signals broad formal opportunities to unplug and recharge.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working hours and remote options are emphasized across job and benefits listings. These arrangements are paired with travel support for visits to company hubs, aligning benefits with distributed work patterns.
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What We Do
Canary Technologies is a leader in hospitality technology that provides hoteliers with easy, intuitive, and secure solutions to help hotels provide an ideal guest experience.
