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Funding and backers

Hiring now
26
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
01 Advisors, Accel
Momentum
30/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Oct 6 First role in Singapore Account Executive, Growth Sep 21 On the Hacker News front page AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up · 317 points Jan 20 Launched Linear Introduces Code Reviews · linear.app Nov 1, 2025 On the Hacker News front page The profitable startup · 248 points Oct 14, 2022 On the Hacker News front page Linear.app · 212 points Feb 2, 2022 On the Hacker News front page Settings are not a design failure · 488 points Jun 30, 2020 On the Hacker News front page Linear – A fast issue tracker · 491 points 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
17 public repositories
Hacker News stories
132
best: 491 points
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How Linear hires

Truth index
C 65/100
Ghost roles
58%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Linear scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 26 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 58% look like ghost listings, 0% 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

Linear is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2019. The company provides a project management and issue tracking platform designed for software development teams to plan and build products using streamlined workflows. Its system features integrated AI agents for automated task handling and connects with developer tools like GitHub, serving a global market of technology companies and engineering teams.

News

News arXiv.org 21 days ago
Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.29845: Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs
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News autodidakt 24 days ago
LinearSolveBench
A benchmark for AI-discovered numerical solvers: fast, accurate, and general solutions to large sparse linear systems.
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News noteノート 25 days ago
Linear: CI wait times down from over 6 minutes to just over 5, despite nearly 4x more tests. The bottleneck has shifted to the verification side World AI Morning Paper 9/22 (Tue)世界AI朝刊
Today's LeadOn September 21, task management tool Linear published a record of their CI improvements. The number of tests has increased nearly fourfold since the beginning of the year. Even so, the time PRs spend waiting for CI has dropped from over 6 min
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News Linear 25 days ago
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
We cut PR wait time and running costs by rethinking CI as a system, from the infrastructure underneath it to how work gets scheduled and tests get parallelized.
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News thebiglog.com 26 days ago
Replacing Linear MCP with linear-cli The Big Log
Linear is one of my favorite software finds of the last few years. I'm not as big of a fan when it comes to their token-hungry MCP server though. I recently switched to this (unofficial) CLI and my rough estimate is that it saves me between 5k to 25k toke
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News The Awesome Calendar 1 month ago
The Awesome Calendar - free printable linear calendar PDF
Create a free printable linear calendar. Choose your dates and download an A4 PDF without an account. Plan your year on one continuous timeline.
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News X (formerly Twitter) 1 month ago
Sheldon Axler (@AxlerLinear) on X
The translation into Hebrew of Linear Algebra Done Right is now freely available at https://t.co/fAxuAOpdHg. That website also includes an innovative dual-language version showing the Hebrew text and the corresponding English text on facing pages.
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News gingerbill.org 1 month ago
CTTI is Exponential, RTTI is Linear
AbstractRuntime Type Information (RTTI) has a cost, but it is a tame cost compared to Compile-Time Type Information (CTTI), which is sold as "zero-cost", and it is anything but.RTTI's tables are a linear cost in the number of types (N types - N entries),
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Linear over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
29
Postings analysed
29
Stack modernity
89/100AI adopter
Languages
JavaScript28%
SQL21%
TypeScript17%
Python7%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js14%
styled-components3%
Databases
PostgreSQL10%
Redis7%
Snowflake3%
Cloud & platforms
OpenAI100%
GitHub28%
Figma17%
GCP10%
AI & ML
Claude3%
LLM3%
ChatGPT3%
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Full Linear tech stack 29 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
24
2 opened / 3 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
52 days
faster than 26% 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
31% ▼
Frontend
15% ▲
Design
15% ▼
Security
8% ▲
Support
8% ▲
Analytics
8% ▼
Activity Timeline
New location: Singapore Oct 2026
Added Fivetran to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026
Added Metabase to stack Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Aug 2026
Added OpenAI to stack Aug 2026
Added ETL/ELT to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
3
Busiest office
London
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San Francisco United States
HQ
London United Kingdom
Sales office
2 open roles 50% remote
hires for Marketing, Solutions
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Singapore Singapore
Sales office
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days
hires for Sales
seen since Oct 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $142k – $348k per year (Estimated) • Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude
ChatGPT
LLM
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
GitHub
Cybersecurity
SentinelOne
Management
Slack
Google Workspace
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Remote (Europe) • Full-Time
JavaScript
SQL
OpenAI
DevOps
GitHub
Windows
Management
Linear
Slack
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≈ $95k – $219k per year (Estimated) • Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 8+ years exp
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
dbt
OpenAI
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Metabase
Fivetran
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Remote (Europe, European time zones hours) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp
OpenAI
Management
Linear
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≈ $108k – $268k per year (Estimated) • Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
OpenAI
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
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Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
OpenAI
Agentic Workflows
Frontend
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
GCP
WebSockets
Kubernetes
GitHub
Management
Linear
Slack
Apply
Remote (United States, MT hours) • Full-Time
JavaScript
SQL
OpenAI
DevOps
GitHub
Windows
Management
Linear
Slack
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≈ $134k – $309k per year (Estimated) • Remote (North America, EST hours) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
OpenAI
DevOps
GitHub
Management
Linear
Slack
Jira
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≈ $109k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Europe, North America) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
OpenAI
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
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≈ $90k – $248k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time
AI Agents
OpenAI
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≈ $186k – $347k per year (Estimated) • Remote (North America) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
OpenAI
Design
Figma
Management
Linear
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≈ $106k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • London
Python
JavaScript
SQL
OpenAI
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
GitHub
Management
Linear
Jira
Apply