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Funding and backers

Total raised
$75M
1 round on record
Latest round
$75M
Series C · Sep 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
112
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Aug 2025
Hiring now
16
+9 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
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Overview

Shift5 is a company that provides an observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT), bringing order to the complexity of onboard data in critical defense and transportation assets. Their solutions are designed to enhance the security, availability, safety, resilience, and reliability of fleets through real-time data access and observability. Shift5's services include predictive maintenance, cybersecurity, compliance, and GPS integrity, serving industries such as defense, aviation, and rail.

News

News BnkInfoSecurity 1 year ago
Shift5 Gets $75M for Cyber Push in Defense and Transit
With a $75 million Series C raise, Shift5 plans to scale its operational intelligence platform across military and commercial transportation. Its focus includes
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
Shift5 Introduces Breakthrough Multi-Protocol Bus Interface Card (BIC) for Modern and Legacy Transportation and Defense Platforms
Instant Data Capture, Device Fingerprinting, and First-of-Its-Kind Malformed Message Detection and Capture Enable Unmatched Diagnostic Capabilities for Cybersecurity and Maintenance Teams Arlington, Virginia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 2, 2024) - Shift5, t
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News C4ISRNet 3 years ago
Shift5 selected by Army to cyber-harden HIMARS fleet
The U.S. military's increasingly computerized weapons are at risk of harassment or hijacking, the Government Accountability Office has said.
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News Pulse 2.0 3 years ago
Shift5: Onboard Data Company Closes $33 Million In Funding
Shift5 - an onboard data company - announced recently that it raised $33 million in additional financing, bringing the Series B round to $83 million.
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News BnkInfoSecurity 3 years ago
Shift5 Gets $33M to Help Safeguard Commercial Transportation
Moore Strategic Ventures led a $33 million investment into a military and transportation security startup founded by officers who stood up U.S. Army Cyber Command.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Shift5 over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
39
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
Python38%
Rust23%
Go15%
Java15%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular8%
Hadoop8%
React.js8%
Vue.js8%
Databases
Amazon Redshift8%
MySQL8%
Oracle8%
PostgreSQL8%
Cloud & platforms
Linux46%
Windows23%
AWS15%
Airflow8%
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$153k
Typical range
$110k – $220k
Open positions
10
8 Jobs
Junior 37.5%
Middle 12.5%
Senior 37.5%
Staff 12.5%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 3 $110k $110k
Middle 1 $155k $155k
Senior 3 $165k $143k – $175k
Staff 1 $220k $220k
Highest paying role Staff Data Engineer $220k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
16
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
29 days
faster than 43% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 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.
Operations
32% ▲
Data Science
11% ▼
Product
11% ▼
Industrial Engineering
11% ▲
Backend
5% ▲
DevOps
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Operations (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added CAPA to stack Sep 2026
Added Jira to stack Sep 2026
Added Confluence to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack Aug 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack Aug 2026
Added Vue.js to stack Aug 2026
Added Rest API to stack Aug 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Rosslyn
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Arlington United States
HQ
Rosslyn United States
Remote/HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for Administrative, Operations
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

$143k per year • Remote (likely United States) • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Linux
Unix
TCP/IP
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$110k – $155k per year • Remote (United States) • Top Secret • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
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≈ $110k – $221k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (likely United States) • Secret • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Linux
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≈ $68k – $188k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Top Secret • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
Frontend
Vue.js
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Management
Agile
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$120k – $170k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Master's Degree
Python
SQL
MATLAB
Time Series Forecasting
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$185k – $220k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Master's Degree
Python
Go
Java
Rust
TypeScript
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
Databricks
Oracle
Amazon Redshift
AI/ML
Hadoop
Spark
Airflow
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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Financials

Total raised
$75M
Latest round
Series C
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series C 2025 $75M Details