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Funding and backers

Total raised
$290M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$245M
Venture round · Sep 2026 · this month
Hiring now
14
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
In-Q-Tel, Greylock
The money's age
Fresh money
0 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
44/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2026 $245M — securityweek.com
Seed Mar 2026 $45M — Pulse 2.0
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How Cylake hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Cylake scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 6 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Cylake is the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments.

News

News markets.businessinsider.com 11 days ago
Well Over 10 Organizations Are Joining Cylake's Design Partners Program
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cylake, the complete cybersecurity platform for operational sovereignty, today announced t...
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News BnkInfoSecurity 17 days ago
Cylake Gets $245M to Build Cloud-Free Cybersecurity Platform
Cylake, led by Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk, raised $245 million to build an on-premises cybersecurity system combining hardware, storage, security software
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News markets.businessinsider.com 20 days ago
Cylake Closes $245 Million Funding Round Ahead of Beta Release for Next-Generation Cybersecurity Product
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cylake, the complete cybersecurity platform for operational sovereignty, announced today i...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Cylake over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
43
Postings analysed
11
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Python73%
Rust64%
C++27%
Go18%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink9%
PyTorch9%
React.js9%
Databases
Apache Iceberg9%
Neo4j9%
PostgreSQL9%
Cloud & platforms
Linux18%
Windows18%
AWS9%
Apache Kafka9%
AI & ML
LLM9%
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Full Cylake tech stack 43 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$160k – $250k
Open positions
12
9 Jobs
Senior 88.9%
Architect 11.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 8 $250k $250k
Architect 1 $250k $250k
Highest paying role Quality Engineer Architect $250k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
14
3 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Industrial Engineering
25% ▲
AI/ML
13% ▼
DevOps
13% ▼
Security
13% ▼
Design
13% ▼
HR
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added DHCP to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale United States
Engineering / R&D
525 Almanor Avenue, Suite 300
14 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 57% engineering $243k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering, AI/ML
525 Almanor Avenue, Suite 300, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
seen since Mar 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Sunnyvale
Python
Reinforcement Learning
AI Agents
PyTorch
LLM
Anomaly Detection
SFT
Post-training
Pre-training
arXiv
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
SIEM
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$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • PhD • Sunnyvale
Python
Rust
C++
AI Agents
Knowledge Graph
Red Teaming
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
Cyber Kill Chain
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • Sunnyvale
Rust
C++
Assembly
WinDbg
DevOps
Windows
Apply
$130k – $160k per year • In office • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Sunnyvale
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Python
Go
JavaScript
Rust
Node JS
gRPC
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sunnyvale
JavaScript
TypeScript
React.js
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Python
Rust
Ansible
Kubernetes
Linux
DHCP
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • Sunnyvale
Python
PostgreSQL
Neo4j
Apache Iceberg
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Spark
Flink
Apply
$150k – $250k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Sunnyvale
Rust
Self-Healing
eBPF
Linux
Windows
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$290M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $245M Details
Seed 2026 $45M Details