diff --git a/lib/sidekiq-status.rb b/lib/sidekiq-status.rb
index 047f09b..8a6375b 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq-status.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq-status.rb
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ def status(job_id)
       status.to_sym  unless status.nil?
     end
 
+    def cancel(job_id, job_unix_time = nil)
+      delete_and_unschedule(job_id, job_unix_time)
+    end
+
     STATUS.each do |name|
       class_eval(<<-END, __FILE__, __LINE__)
         def #{name}?(job_id)
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq-status/storage.rb b/lib/sidekiq-status/storage.rb
index 837ee78..78ec2f2 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq-status/storage.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq-status/storage.rb
@@ -27,6 +27,43 @@ def store_status(id, status, expiration = nil)
     store_for_id id, {status: status}, expiration
   end
 
+  # Unschedules the job and deletes the Status
+  # @param [String] id job id
+  # @param [Num] job_unix_time, unix timestamp for the scheduled job
+  def delete_and_unschedule(job_id, job_unix_time = nil)
+    Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
+      scheduled_jobs = conn.zrange "schedule", 0, -1, {withscores: true}
+      matching_index = scan_scheduled_jobs_for_jid scheduled_jobs, job_id, job_unix_time
+
+      job_found = matching_index > -1
+      if job_found
+        conn.zrem "schedule", scheduled_jobs[matching_index]
+        conn.del job_id
+      end
+      job_found
+    end
+  end
+
+  # Searches the schedule Array for the job_id
+  # @param [Array] scheduled_jobs, results of Redis schedule key
+  # @param [String] id job id
+  # @param [Num] job_unix_time, unix timestamp for the scheduled job
+  def scan_scheduled_jobs_for_jid(scheduled_jobs, job_id, job_unix_time = nil)
+    ## schedule is an array ordered by a (float) unix timestamp for the posting time.
+    ## Better would be to binary search on the time: # jobs_same_time = scheduled_jobs.bsearch {|x| x[1] == unix_time_scheduled }
+    ## Unfortunately Ruby 2.0's bsearch won't help here because it does not return a range of elements (would only return first-matching), nor does it return an index.
+    ## Instead we will scan through all elements until timestamp matches and check elements after:
+    scheduled_jobs.each_with_index do |schedule_listing, i|
+      checking_result = listing_matches_job(schedule_listing, job_id, job_unix_time)
+      if checking_result.nil?
+        return -1 # Is nil when we've exhaused potential candidates
+      elsif checking_result
+        return i
+      end
+    end
+    -1 # Not found
+  end
+
   # Gets a single valued from job status hash
   # @param [String] id job id
   # @param [String] Symbol field fetched field name
@@ -45,4 +82,24 @@ def read_hash_for_id(id)
       conn.hgetall id
     end
   end
+
+  private
+
+  # Searches the schedule Array for the job_id
+  # @param [Array] schedule_listing, a particular entry from the Redis schedule Array
+  # @param [String] id job id
+  # @param [Num] job_unix_time, unix timestamp for the scheduled job
+  def listing_matches_job(schedule_listing, job_id, job_unix_time = nil)
+    if(job_unix_time.nil? || schedule_listing[1] == job_unix_time)
+      # A Little skecthy, I know, but the structure of these internal JSON
+      # is predefined in such a way where this will not catch unintentional elements,
+      # and this is notably faster than performing JSON.parse() for every listing:
+      if schedule_listing[0].include?("\"jid\":\"#{job_id}")
+        return true
+      end
+    elsif(schedule_listing[1] > job_unix_time)
+      return nil #Not found. Can break (due to ordering)
+    end
+    false
+  end
 end
diff --git a/spec/lib/sidekiq-status_spec.rb b/spec/lib/sidekiq-status_spec.rb
index b383404..1e0a1ea 100644
--- a/spec/lib/sidekiq-status_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/sidekiq-status_spec.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   let!(:redis) { Sidekiq.redis { |conn| conn } }
   let!(:job_id) { SecureRandom.hex(12) }
   let!(:job_id_1) { SecureRandom.hex(12) }
+  let!(:unused_id) { SecureRandom.hex(12) }
 
   # Clean Redis before each test
   # Seems like flushall has no effect on recently published messages,
@@ -77,6 +78,45 @@
     end
   end
 
+  describe ".cancel" do
+    it "cancels a job by id" do
+      SecureRandom.should_receive(:hex).twice.and_return(job_id, job_id_1)
+      start_server do
+        job = LongJob.perform_in(3600)
+        job.should == job_id
+        second_job = LongJob.perform_in(3600)
+        second_job.should == job_id_1
+
+        initial_schedule = redis.zrange "schedule", 0, -1, {withscores: true}
+        initial_schedule.size.should be 2
+        initial_schedule.select {|scheduled_job| JSON.parse(scheduled_job[0])["jid"] == job_id }.size.should be 1
+
+        Sidekiq::Status.cancel(job_id).should be_true
+        Sidekiq::Status.cancel(unused_id).should be_false # Unused, therefore unfound => false
+
+        remaining_schedule = redis.zrange "schedule", 0, -1, {withscores: true}
+        remaining_schedule.size.should == (initial_schedule.size - 1)
+        remaining_schedule.select {|scheduled_job| JSON.parse(scheduled_job[0])["jid"] == job_id }.size.should be 0
+      end
+    end
+
+    it "does not cancel a job with correct id but wrong time" do
+      SecureRandom.should_receive(:hex).once.and_return(job_id)
+      start_server do
+        scheduled_time = Time.now.to_i + 3600
+        returned_job_id = LongJob.perform_at(scheduled_time)
+        returned_job_id.should == job_id
+
+        initial_schedule = redis.zrange "schedule", 0, -1, {withscores: true}
+        initial_schedule.size.should == 1
+        Sidekiq::Status.cancel(returned_job_id, (scheduled_time + 1)).should be_false # wrong time, therefore unfound => false
+        (redis.zrange "schedule", 0, -1, {withscores: true}).size.should be 1
+        Sidekiq::Status.cancel(returned_job_id, (scheduled_time)).should be_true # same id, same time, deletes
+        (redis.zrange "schedule", 0, -1, {withscores: true}).size.should be_zero
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
   context "keeps normal Sidekiq functionality" do
     it "does jobs with and without included worker module" do
       SecureRandom.should_receive(:hex).exactly(4).times.and_return(job_id, job_id, job_id_1, job_id_1)