Cantina
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Sunnyvale, California101 people
19 open roles
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Roles are read from Cantina’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Cantina hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Cantina has the 361st most open roles of 2,946 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 19 open roles is 1.9× the average hiring startup (10.0).
- 37% of openings are in Engineering, then Data (21%).
- Most roles are mid level (47%). 3 roles suit graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 101, these openings would grow headcount by up to 19%.
- 0% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
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- 37% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 89% of postings mention equity.
- 19 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 2 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
Momentum, explained
- Cantina hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 19
- Roles added in 30 days
- 19
- Roles added in 90 days
- 19
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #361
- of 2,946 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.19
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 19
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 4
- 21% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 7
- 37% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 2 months
- Oldest: 21 months
Pay
- Roles that post pay
- 0%
- 0 of 19
- Mention equity
- 89%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 37%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 3
- 2 internships
- Median experience asked
- 6 yrs
- 1 ask a year or less
Breakdowns
19
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Mid level947%
- 2Staff316%
- 3Internship211%
- 4Manager211%
- 5Director15%
- 6Graduate / entry15%
- 7Senior15%
- 1Hybrid1263%
- 2Remote737%
- 1Singapore632%
- 2Europe526%
- 3San Francisco316%
- 4Los Angeles211%
- 5United States211%
- 6New York15%
- 1Full-time1789%
- 2Internship211%
- 1Research1158%
- 2Engineering316%
- 3Product316%
- 4Finance15%
- 5Marketing15%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Cantina role.