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How VK hires
Truth index
B 80/100
Median time to fill
28 days
Ghost roles
17%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
67%
VK scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 24 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 17% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 67% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 28 days. 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
VK is a Russian internet group built around VKontakte, the social network launched in 2006 that became the most used site in the country. The group also owns Odnoklassniki, the Mail.ru email and portal services, the VK Video platform, the VK Play games store and the RuStore application marketplace created after Western app stores withdrew from Russia. Headquartered in Moscow with a large engineering presence in Saint Petersburg where the network was founded, it also runs a cloud division, an advertising platform and the Marusia voice assistant, making it the closest thing the Russian market has to a full consumer internet stack.
News
EU sanctions Russia's VK Company for helping expose Putin's critics
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at VK over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
135
Postings analysed
128
Stack modernity
84/100AI adopter
Languages
Python41%
SQL34%
Java23%
C++8%
Frameworks & libraries
Pandas6%
Hadoop5%
Matplotlib5%
NumPy5%
Databases
PostgreSQL18%
ClickHouse13%
Redis6%
MySQL5%
Cloud & platforms
Linux19%
Kubernetes11%
Superset10%
Apache Kafka9%
AI & ML
ChatGPT2%
LLM2%
Midjourney2%
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135 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$12k
Typical range
$12k
Open positions
2
1
Jobs
Junior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $12k | $12k |
Highest paying role
Менеджер по продажам в ЯКласс
$12k
Normalized to USD per year
Products
Cloud
VK Cloud provides compute, storage, databases and machine learning services to Russian businesses. It commercialises the infrastructure behind the group's consumer platforms.
vk.com
RuStore
RuStore is the Android application marketplace VK built after Western app stores restricted Russian developers. It is preinstalled on devices sold in the country.
vk.com
Mail.ru
Mail.ru is one of Russia's largest email services and web portals. It predates VKontakte and came to the group through the former Mail.ru Group.
mail.ru
Video
VK Video is the group's video hosting and streaming platform, which grew sharply as foreign services became harder to reach in Russia. It covers user uploads, licensed content and live broadcasting.
vk.com
VKontakte
VKontakte is the group's flagship social network and the most visited website in Russia. It combines feeds, messaging, communities, music and mini-applications in one platform.
vk.com
People
Pavel Durov
Co-Founder of VKontakte
Pavel Durov founded VKontakte in 2006 while a student in Saint Petersburg and built it into Russia's dominant social network. He left the company in 2014 and went on to create Telegram.
Nikolai Durov
Co-Founder of VKontakte
Nikolai Durov co-founded VKontakte with his brother and wrote much of its original backend. A mathematician and competitive programming champion, he later designed the core protocols behind Telegram.
Vladimir Kiriyenko
Chief Executive Officer
Vladimir Kiriyenko has led VK as chief executive since 2021. He previously served as a senior vice president at the telecoms operator Rostelecom.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
92/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
77
72 opened / 51 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
28 days
faster than 44% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~21 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.
Analytics
19% ▼
Backend
12% ▼
Sales
9% ▲
DevOps
8% ▲
Product
7% ▼
Field & Service
6% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+14 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Р7-Офис to stack
Oct 2026
Added Ubuntu to stack
Oct 2026
Added containerd to stack
Oct 2026
Added Tailwind CSS to stack
Oct 2026
Added HAProxy to stack
Oct 2026
Added Terraform to stack
Oct 2026
Added Least Privilege to stack
Oct 2026
Added IAM to stack
Oct 2026
Added Error Budget to stack
Oct 2026
Added Blue-Green Deployment to stack
Oct 2026
Added Alertmanager to stack
Oct 2026
Added InfiniBand to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Moscow
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Moscow
Russia
HQ
67 open roles 137 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 39% remote 500-1000 est. staff $12k Avg Salary
hires for Analytics, Backend, DevOps
Ленинградский проспект 39
Saint Petersburg
Russia
Engineering / R&D
11 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 82% engineering 55% remote 50-200 est. staff $12k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Backend, Analytics
Невский проспект 28
Earlier presence
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Jobs
≈ $21k – $42k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 3+ years exp • Moscow
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SQL
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Windows
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
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SIEM
Management
Jira
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≈ $16k – $38k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EAEU) • Moscow
BPMN
Directum
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≈ $41k – $69k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Moscow
Terraform
Ansible
Linux
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≈ $37k – $72k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • 3+ years exp • Moscow
Python
Java
C++
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In office • Moscow
Python
Java
C++
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≈ $27k – $61k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EAEU) • 5+ years exp • Moscow
Windows
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
CVSS
SIEM
Management
Jira
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≈ $20k – $51k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Moscow
SLI/SLO/SLA
Amazon S3
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≈ $24k – $49k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Moscow
Python
SQL
ETL/ELT
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≈ $13k – $27k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EAEU) • Full-Time • Moscow
ChatGPT
Midjourney
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
ProtoPie
Adobe After Effects
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≈ $17k – $40k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EAEU) • Full-Time • Saint Petersburg
Python
SQL
SciPy
Pandas
NumPy
Machine Learning
Analytics
Seaborn
Matplotlib
Superset
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