Ghost is a small team taking on a very old problem with a new set of tools. The personal data of every adult on the internet is for sale to anyone with a credit card and a few hours. We are building the privacy layer that quietly takes that data back, at scale, and keeps it gone. If you want to ship product that meaningfully reduces a real person's online exposure — measured in records removed, attacks prevented, peace of mind restored — we would love to hear from you.
Who we are
About twenty people across London, New York, and Lisbon, working async-first. We come from companies that built the surveillance economy (so we know exactly how the data moves) and from regulators that tried to rein it in (so we know exactly which buttons to push). We are profitable, growing, and not in a hurry — the right hire is worth more to us than a fast hire.
Open roles
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Engineering
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
London / Remote
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Engineering
ML Engineer, OSINT
Remote (EU/US)
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Privacy & Legal
Privacy Counsel
London
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Operations
Removals Operations Lead
Remote
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Growth
Performance Marketer
Remote (UK)
How we work
Async-first by default — we keep meetings under three hours a week for everyone outside leadership, and over half the company keeps the whole afternoon meeting-free. Two designated ship days each week so engineers can sit in the work without context-switching. Decisions are written down in long-form docs and reviewed at calm tempo, because most of our customers are trusting us with the most sensitive data they own and we owe them a deliberate engineering culture.
What we offer
- Competitive cash and meaningful equity for every full-time hire, with the option to bias either direction at offer time.
- Three weeks paid time off on top of all public holidays in your region, plus a company-wide week off at the end of December and another at the end of August. Take more if you need more.
- Top-tier health coverage for you and your dependants, with private mental-health support included.
- A home-office stipend on day one, refreshed every three years. We pay for the chair, the desk, the second monitor, and the noise-cancelling headphones.
- A learning budget for books, courses, and conferences — anything that compounds your craft.
- Two onsites a year where we get the whole company in the same place for a week of working sessions, talks, and one really good dinner.
- Ghost Premium for life, including for two family members of your choice. We build the product, we use the product.
How we hire
- A 30-minute conversation with the hiring manager about what you have built and what you want to build next.
- A take-home task scoped to about three hours. We pay for your time for any task longer than 90 minutes.
- A working session with two or three engineers — walk through your take-home, then pair on a small extension. We are looking for how you think out loud, not whether you have memorised an algorithm.
- A final conversation with the founders, focused on motivation, principles, and the trade-offs we are making this year.
- Two reference calls, run by us, plus a debrief and decision within one week of the final conversation.
We do not run timed coding interviews, whiteboard puzzles, or culture-fit interviews. We do ask for code samples (yours or ours) so the technical conversation is grounded in something real.
Don't see your role?
If you have a strong case for why we should know about you, write to hello@useghost.me with a paragraph about what you would build at Ghost in the first ninety days. We read every one.