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Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Y Combinator, All rights reserved
Momentum
31/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Jul 4, 2022
On the Hacker News front page Keep calm and use the runbook · 120 points
Jan 2020
Went through Y Combinator
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.35%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
10
best: 120 points
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Sandboxing AI agents: Building a microVM
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Cortex joins Amazon Web Services (AWS), enhancing software engineering productivity for more teams
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cortex Engineering Blog over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
Python
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry
Databases
PostgreSQL
BigQuery
ClickHouse
Google BigQuery
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
GitHub Actions
GitLab
Kubernetes
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22 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$245k
Typical range
$160k – $325k
Open positions
5
5
Jobs
Senior
80%
Staff
20%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 4 | $261k | $160k – $325k |
| Staff | 1 | $245k | $245k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive (US)
$325k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Cortex Engineering Blog
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
5
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
55 days
faster than 25% 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.
Sales
38% ▲
Data Science
13% ▼
DevOps
13% ▼
Marketing
13% ▼
Industrial Engineering
13% ▼
Solutions
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Git to stack
Sep 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Added Incident Management to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitLab to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub Actions to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Added Xero to stack
Sep 2026
Added BigQuery to stack
Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack
Sep 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack
Aug 2026
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