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Offices
Jobs
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Funding and backers

Latest round
Venture round
Mar 2026 · 6 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
6
open roles
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Wayfinder Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
6 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
30/100
a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 31 Raised a round Venture round Dec 14, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem · 262 points Nov 24, 2023 Raised a round Venture round Oct 3, 2023 On the Hacker News front page Show HN: Trigger.dev V2 – a Temporal alternative for TypeScript devs · 172 points Feb 1, 2023 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative Jan 2023 Went through Y Combinator 2022 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
79 public repositories
Launched on Hacker News
745 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2026 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Venture round Nov 2023 — — find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
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Overview

Trigger.dev builds an open source background job and workflow platform for developers. Its runtime is widely used to orchestrate artificial intelligence tasks. The company serves engineering teams building agentic products.

News

News triggerdotdev 7 months ago
Why we replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput Trigger.dev
How we took our warm start service from 2,099 req/s on Node + SQLite to 10,700 req/s on a compiled Bun binary, and found a subtle memory leak that only exists in Bun's HTTP model.
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News triggerdotdev 7 months ago
10 Claude Code Tips You Didn't Know Trigger.dev
Go beyond the chat interface. 10 lesser-known Claude Code patterns: session forking, parallel worktrees, multi-agent orchestration, and headless CI/CD.
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News triggerdotdev 7 months ago
How we give every user SQL access to a shared ClickHouse cluster Trigger.dev
A deep dive into TRQL - the SQL-like language behind Query. How we parse, validate, and compile queries to secure, tenant-safe ClickHouse SQL.
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News triggerdotdev 8 months ago
Skills: teaching AI agents to act consistently Trigger.dev
Skills teach AI agents how to do specific tasks consistently. Learn how they work, what's inside them, and how agents discover and load them.
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News triggerdotdev 10 months ago
How GovSignals is solving government procurement using Trigger.dev
Conner Aldrich, Co-Founder & CTO at GovSignals, shares how his team uses Trigger.dev to power large-scale AI ingestion, high-compute proposal generation, and a dual-deployment model spanning both Trigger cloud and a fully self-hosted, FedRAMP High environ
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News triggerdotdev 11 months ago
How we got hit by Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem Trigger.dev
On November 25th, one of our engineers was compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain worm. Here's what happened, how we responded, and what we've changed.
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News anchorbrowser.io 1 year ago
Integrate Trigger.dev and Anchor Browser - Anchor
Schedule powerful agentic browsers to hunt for Broadway ticket deals.
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News triggerdotdev 1 year ago
How we built a real-time service that handles 20,000 updates per second Trigger.dev
We process 20,000 run updates per second and 500GB of data daily using Postgres replication slots and ElectricSQL. Here's why we chose this over WebSockets and how we solved the hard problems of authentication, rate limiting, and caching.
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News triggerdotdev 1 year ago
Self-hosting Trigger.dev v4 using Docker
You can now self-host Trigger.dev v4 using Docker. This is a big step towards making Trigger.dev more accessible to everyone.
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News triggerdotdev 1 year ago
How to write great Cursor Rules Trigger.dev
What we learned writing a Cursor Rules file for Trigger.dev tasks, and 10 tips for writing your own
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Trigger.dev over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
78/100
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Go
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Remix
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
AWS
Azure
Figma
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Full Trigger.dev tech stack 18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
57/100
Growing
Open positions
6
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
124 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/24/2026
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% ▲
Product
17% ▲
HR
17% ▲
Marketing
17% ▲
Industrial Engineering
17% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: London Sep 2026
Added WebAssembly to stack Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Redis to stack Sep 2026
Added PostgreSQL to stack Sep 2026
Added Node JS to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added Go to stack Sep 2026
Added GCP to stack Sep 2026
Added Azure to stack Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
London United Kingdom
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for HR
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $69k – $170k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
AI Agents
Frontend
WebAssembly
DevOps
GitHub
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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≈ $87k – $164k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Remix
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
GitHub
Linux
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≈ $127k – $268k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • San Francisco
AI Agents
DevOps
GitHub
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Financials

Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 — Details