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News
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Products
People
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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$25M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$20M
Series A · Mar 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
4
Accel, Crane Venture Partners
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 17 Raised a round Series A $20M · led by First Mark · TNW Startups-technology Jan 31, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Why Tracebit is written in C# · 245 points Jul 9, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $5M · Business Insider Feb 26, 2024 On the Hacker News front page How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket · 583 points 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.03%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
24
best: 583 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Mar 2026 $20M First Mark lead TNW Startups-technology
Venture round Jul 2024 $5M — Business Insider
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Overview

Most breaches aren't detected for months. Tracebit detects them in seconds. Deploy canaries across your environment that trigger high-fidelity alerts when attackers move laterally, escalate privileges, or access credentials.

News

Blog 2 months ago
From Compliance to Assurance: Mapping Tracebit to ISO 27001 Tracebit
Most ISO 27001 audits come down to two questions: does the control exist, and is it actually working? Here's a detailed, bounded mapping of Tracebit's deception-based detection to the 2022 Annex A control set - 12 controls with direct evidence, plus suppo
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Blog 2 months ago
Deception and the OpenAI / Hugging Face agentic breach Tracebit
At Black Hat, OpenAI named honey tokens and deception as a key defensive investment against offensive AI agents. We map the publicly disclosed TTPs from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident against Tracebit deception, stage by stage.
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Blog 3 months ago
Webinar: Context Bombs - Stopping AI Attackers in Their Tracks Tracebit
AI agents can now run complex cloud attacks on their own, escalating from a single low-privilege key to full admin within minutes. We sat down to walk through Tracebit's latest research on stopping them - watch the full recording on YouTube.
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Podcast 3 months ago
AI Security Podcast: Deception in the Age of AI Agents Tracebit
I recently joined the AI Security Podcast with Ashish Rajan and Caleb Sima to discuss what deception means in a world of AI agents. Listen now.
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Blog 3 months ago
New Features: Context Bomb Canaries and AI Posture Tracebit
We're shipping our AI-attacker research as product. Context Bomb Canaries for AWS stop an a malicious agent mid-attack by tripping its own guardrails, and the new AI Posture view lets you tell your sanctioned coding agents apart from an attacker's automat
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Blog 3 months ago
Context bombs: stopping AI attackers in their tracks Tracebit
We planted context bombs, short strings that trip an AI model's own safety guardrails, inside canary secrets in a live AWS environment. Across 5 frontier models and 152 runs, they cut successful attack paths from 91% to 15% - stopping attackers outright a
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Podcast 3 months ago
Canaries in the Wild - Episode 5: Ollie Whitehouse Tracebit
Episode 5 features Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, on 23 years of running deception and building NCSC's national-scale cyber deception programme.
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Blog 3 months ago
Perimeter Sensors - the attacker only has to be wrong once Tracebit
Today we're extending detection of an intrusion to the earliest point: the perimeter, the moment stolen access is first used. Introducing Perimeter Sensors - believable canary services on your own domain, bound to canary credentials seeded across your org
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Blog 4 months ago
Webinar: AI Agents vs. Canaries Tracebit
AI agents can compromise a cloud environment in minutes. We sent ten frontier AI models to attack a live AWS cyber range - across 951 runs, AI reached admin in an average of 14 minutes, but canaries warned the defender first in 95.9% of compromising runs.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Tracebit over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
13
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
C#
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
HTMX
Cloud & platforms
Snyk
.NET
AWS
Azure
AI & ML
Gemini
Claude
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Full Tracebit tech stack 13 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$216k
Typical range
$172k – $260k
Open positions
2
1 Jobs
Senior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 1 $172k $172k
Highest paying role Founding Sales Engineer $260k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
2
0 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
92 days
faster than 15% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Solutions
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added OpenAI Codex to stack Aug 2026
New location: San Francisco Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
New York
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New York United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote 10-50 est. staff $260k Avg Salary
hires for Solutions
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
London United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $172k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
San Francisco, United States 2 open roles · last posting Jun 2026

Jobs

$180k – $260k per year • Remote (United States, US time zones hours) • Full-Time • New York
Gemini
DevOps
Docker
Cybersecurity
Snyk
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$133k – $172k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • London
JavaScript
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Claude
Gemini
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
HTMX
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
Azure
AWS
Docker
Cybersecurity
Snyk
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$25M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2026 $20M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $5M Details