Nightfall
nightfall.ai
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Information Security
Cloud Security
Data Loss Prevention
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$60.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$40M
Venture round · Aug 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
25
open roles
Backers
1
Pear VC
The money's age
Long since its last round
50 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
10/100
a new city
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 30, 2025
Launched Nightfall Unveils First AI-Native DLP Copilot to Pave the Way for Autonomous Security · PRNewswire
Aug 10, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $40M · TechCrunch
Oct 18, 2021
Certified Nightfall Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance · PRNewswire
Sep 21, 2021
New executive Nightfall Appoints Tim Gunderson as Chief Revenue Officer · PRNewswire
Nov 7, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $20.3M
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.33%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
14
best: 50 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2022 | $40M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Nov 2019 | $20.3M | — | venturebeat.com |
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How Nightfall hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Nightfall scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 8 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
Nightfall is a data security company that builds an AI-based data loss prevention platform. Its product detects sensitive data such as credentials, personal and financial information across SaaS applications, generative AI tools, email and endpoints, and blocks exfiltration and policy violations. It sells to enterprises and has an engineering team in Bengaluru. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.
News
Nightfall Unveils First AI-Native DLP Copilot to Pave the Way for Autonomous Security
/PRNewswire/ -- Nightfall today unveiled Nightfall Nyx, the industry
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Evaluating content inspection engines for data classification applications Nightfall AI
Many organizations recognize the emergent need to discover, classify, and protect their sensitive information stored in cloud applications (SaaS) and infrastructure (IaaS) via a dedicated cloud content inspection process
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Prevent secrets, credentials, and PII leaking in application logs with the Nightfall Developer Platform Nightfall AI
Infosec leaders have a lot of corners to cover in their cybersecurity strategy. When crafting the tactics and onboarding the platforms that will protect sensitive information, the checklist of requirements could be missing a very important vector for atta
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How secure is your Zendesk instance? Find out with Nightfall's Zendesk DLP scanner Nightfall AI
When your customers reach out for help, they send messages to your support team that likely contain personal information.
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I Left the Founding Team at Uber Eats to Build the Developer Tool I Always Needed Nightfall AI
Data stewardship and protection of customer data is likely to become one of the largest challenges for businesses this decade, with a growing number of countries considering data privacy legislation
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4 Components of Modern Data Classification & Protection Infrastructure Nightfall AI
Data privacy is top of mind for every organization, with individuals wanting reassurance that their data is secure at all times. With the ever-increasing number of cloud applications on the market today, security teams are faced with the challenge of keep
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Creating a custom Temporal data convertor for encryption Nightfall AI
Nightfall is a data security vendor that integrates with our customers' third party applications (Slack, Google Drive, Github, Jira etc) to, on a continuous real-time basis, scan all content being added to these applications for sensitive data.
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Best Go Regex Library Nightfall AI
At Nightfall, our mission is to detect sensitive data. Today, we detect 50+ types of sensitive data, including social security numbers, API keys, street addresses, and more.
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The Anatomy of Mega-breaches: An Analysis of the Top 100 largest Data Breaches of the Past 15+ Years Nightfall AI
We took a look at the top 100 breaches between 2004 and 2020, ranked by the number of records impacted. Read our original report.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Nightfall over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
90
Postings analysed
32
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
C++44%
Python41%
Java28%
Go19%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch13%
PyTorch C++13%
Hadoop9%
Flink9%
Databases
PostgreSQL22%
Redis19%
Cassandra16%
MySQL6%
Cloud & platforms
Cloudflare91%
Okta91%
DLP34%
Apache Kafka31%
AI & ML
LLM6%
ChatGPT3%
Claude3%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$300k
Typical range
$180k – $340k
Open positions
6
6
Jobs
Senior
16.7%
Staff
16.7%
Architect
66.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Staff | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Architect | 4 | $320k | $300k – $340k |
Highest paying role
Regional Sales Director - SouthEast
$340k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Nightfall
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
63/100
Growing
Open positions
25
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 22% 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
25% ▼
Support
20% ▼
AI/ML
15% ▼
DevOps
10% ▼
Backend
5% ▼
Leadership
5% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: United States
Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack
Sep 2026
Added VPN to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Zero Trust to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tokenization to stack
Sep 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack
Sep 2026
Added Defense in Depth to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
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Palo Alto
United States
HQ
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 33% remote 50-200 est. staff $275k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Field & Service, Solutions
Bengaluru
India
Sales office
16 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Support, Backend, DevOps
San Francisco
United States
Sales office
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% remote 50-200 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Leadership, Legal
Jobs
≈ $36k – $95k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bengaluru
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≈ $28k – $61k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Bengaluru
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Go
JavaScript
Java
SQL
C++
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
Snowflake
Cassandra
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Hadoop
AI Agents
Flink
LLM
Context Engineering
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$250k – $300k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
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Tokenization
DevOps
Cloudflare
Cybersecurity
Okta
Zero Trust
Defense in Depth
Least Privilege
Management
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≈ $27k – $60k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Python
Java
C++
PyTorch C++
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
NLP
PyTorch
Edge AI
Agentic Workflows
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
AWS
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Okta
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≈ $27k – $78k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bengaluru
C++
AI Agents
DevOps
containerd
Docker
Cloudflare
Ubuntu
CentOS Stream
eBPF
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Okta
Crowdstrike
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SIEM
DLP
Management
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$200k – $250k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Palo Alto
AI Agents
DevOps
Cloudflare
Cybersecurity
Okta
DLP
Management
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≈ $16k – $42k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bengaluru
Objective-C
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≈ $16k – $41k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Rust
C++
AI Agents
DevOps
Cloudflare
Windows
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
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Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Rust
C++
AI Agents
DevOps
Cloudflare
Windows
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
Dropbox
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Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bengaluru
Objective-C
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DevOps
Cloudflare
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $22k – $48k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Python
Go
Bash
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
Apache Kafka
Amazon Aurora
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Puppet
Ansible
GCP
Helm
OpenTelemetry
Podman
VMWare
Chef
Datadog
Linkerd
PagerDuty
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
KVM
Hyper-V
IAM
VPN
Cybersecurity
Okta
SOC 2
Management
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≈ $20k – $48k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Bengaluru
Python
Go
Java
SQL
C++
MySQL
Cassandra
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Hadoop
AI Agents
DevOps
ZooKeeper
Cloudflare
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
Dropbox
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