Rivet
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Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, a16z speedrun
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
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
Sep 23, 2025
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Vbare – a simple alternative to Protobuf for schema evolution
Jan 2023
Went through Y Combinator
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Overview
Rivet is an open-source backend infrastructure platform engineered for stateful workloads, AI agent orchestration, and real-time interactive applications. Its core technology, Rivet Actors, provides long-running, lightweight execution primitives that co-locate in-memory state, WebSockets, queues, and durable execution workflows into a unified runtime.
News
"Who Pays for What?" Survey: Rivet Gun Set-Up and Stall Cure Time Sit at the Bottom of the Payment Ranking
Rivet gun set-up and stall cure time rank lowest for insurer payment in the 2026
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How We Built the First Zero-Disk, S3-Tiered Storage Engine for SQLite - Rivet
How Rivet keeps SQLite writes fast and durable while cold data offloads to object storage.
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GitHub - rivet-dev/agentos: Give agents an operating system as a library. Runs in your existing backend - no sandboxes, VMs, or SaaS. Powered by WebAssembly & V8 isolates.
Give agents an operating system as a library. Runs in your existing backend - no sandboxes, VMs, or SaaS. Powered by WebAssembly & V8 isolates. - rivet-dev/agentos
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agentOS - A Computer for Every Agent - Rivet
A virtual operating system for agents, with files, processes, shell, and networking in one lightweight library.
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GitHub - rivet-dev/actors: Rivet Actors are the primitive for stateful workloads. Built for AI agents, collaborative apps, and durable execution.
Rivet Actors are the primitive for stateful workloads. Built for AI agents, collaborative apps, and durable execution. - rivet-dev/actors
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sandbox-agent/gigacode at main rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
Run Coding Agents in Sandboxes. Control Them Over HTTP. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp. - sandbox-agent/gigacode at main rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
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GitHub - rivet-dev/sandbox-agent: Run Coding Agents in Sandboxes. Control Them Over HTTP. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp.
Run Coding Agents in Sandboxes. Control Them Over HTTP. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp. - rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
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A Radically Simpler Architecture - Rivet
Why actors eliminate complexity instead of managing it, and how merging state and compute removes the biggest source of latency in modern applications.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Rivet over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
11
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
68/100
Languages
C++
Go
Rust
TypeScript
Databases
ClickHouse
FoundationDB
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
NATS
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11 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$260k
Typical range
$260k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $260k | $260k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer
$260k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
29/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 35% of the market
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.
Backend
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff
2261 Market Street STE 22704, San Francisco, CA, 94114, US
Jobs
$130k – $260k per year • Remote (likely United States) • Full-Time
Go
Rust
TypeScript
C++
PostgreSQL
NATS
ClickHouse
SQLite
FoundationDB
DevOps
WebSockets
GitHub
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