Primitive
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US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
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3
open roles
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1
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Momentum
15/100
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1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
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Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 5 points
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| Legal entity | Second Stage Labs, Inc. | its site |
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News
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How durable AI-native products can price, package and productize model gains for industry.
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BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender's Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive
Latest Research by our Team
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The Primitive Puppet Show
21% of the internet is AI pretending to be human (2). How can we use AI to improve communication rather than thwart it?
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AI Memory for Claude: An Honest 4-Way Comparison
Four tools, four bets about what AI memory should do. Cost, privacy, and which wins for your workflow -- from a practitioner who built one of them.
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Tools vs Resources vs Prompts: the MCP primitive you
MCP primitives (Tools, Resources, Prompts) are not interchangeable. The misuse that bites: shipping read-only data as a Tool the model must choose to call.
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The primitive is the product - Amplify Partners
Why every software company is now a dev tools company.
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Astronomers Observe the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in the Early Universe
An international team led by Associate Professor Kimihiko Nakajima of Kanazawa University has captured a rare look at the early universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the power of gravitational lensing, the team achieved a definitive ch
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Primitive over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
4
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Rust
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
Linux
Practices & domains
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$230k
Typical range
$230k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 3 | $230k | $230k |
Highest paying role
Product Engineer
$230k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/31/2026
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.
Backend
33% ▼
DevOps
33% ▼
Solutions
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
primitive.dev
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 50-200 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, Solutions
San Francisco
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$190k – $230k per year · Equity 0.2–0.8% · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · San Francisco
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$190k – $230k per year · Equity 0.2–0.8% · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · San Francisco
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