Zilliz
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Vector Search & RAG
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$60M
1 round on record
Latest round
$60M
Series B · Aug 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
open roles
The money's age
Long since its last round
49 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
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
Jan 20
Launched Zilliz Announces General Availability of Milvus 2.6.x on Zilliz Cloud, Powering Billion-Scale Vector Search at Even Lower Cost · PRNewswire
Sep 8, 2025
On the Hacker News front page Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them? · 280 points
Apr 4, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Tokens, n-grams, and bag-of-words models (2023) · 160 points
Dec 2, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Open-Source Advent of Code
Oct 30, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy) · 146 points
Jul 10, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Introduction to vector similarity search (2022) · 189 points
Aug 24, 2022
Raised a round Series B $60M
2017
Founded
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Aug 2022 | $60M | — | businesswire.com |
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How Zilliz hires
Truth index
D 51/100
Ghost roles
82%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Zilliz scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 11 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 82% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
News
Zilliz Releases Milvus 3.0, Making its Open-Source Vector Database Lake-Native
Zilliz, the company behindMilvus-an open-source vector database-recently announced the release ofMilvus 3.0, a major architectural update that brings lake-native data access and a more expressive retrieval engine to developers building production AI appli
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Zilliz Adds Cost-Aware Benchmarking to VDBBench, the Open-Source Vector Database Benchmark
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Zilliz Announces Milvus 3.0, Making the World's Most Adopted Open-Source Vector Database Lake-Native
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Notes from Databricks Summit 2026: Why Data Layer Matters Again - Zilliz blog
James Luan shares notes from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 on why production AI is pushing the data layer back to the center of infrastructure.
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Show HN: Vectordb benchmark - cost (e.g..turbopuffer vs. Zilliz vs. Pinecone
Compare cloud vector database insertion readiness, search throughput, cold latency, and cost profiles using VDBBench raw benchmark artifacts.
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Zilliz lanciert Vector Lakebase und erweitert die weltweit am meisten implementierte Vektordatenbank zu einer einheitlichen Datenplattform für KI
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VDBBench Cost Benchmarking for Vector Databases - Zilliz blog
Compare Zilliz Cloud, Pinecone, and turbopuffer with VDBBench cost-aware vector database benchmarks across latency, freshness, multitenancy, and cold starts.
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AI Datasets Are Never Done. So We Built Loon. - Zilliz blog
Loon is a new storage engine for Milvus 3.0 and Zilliz Vector Lakebase, built to manage evolving vector datasets with ColumnGroups, row ID alignment, and Manifests.
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Why We Built Vector Lakebase: Rethinking Unstructured Data Architecture for AI - Zilliz blog
Vector Lakebase: a unified, lake-native data foundation for AI workloads - and an answer to what happens after vector databases succeed.
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We spent 8 years making vector search faster. Then AI changed the compute model - Zilliz blog
Rarely queried embeddings still need to stay searchable. See how Vector Lakebase enables on-demand vector search without always-on compute costs.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zilliz over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
C++
Rust
Databases
Milvus
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes
AWS
Azure
GCP
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$175k – $250k
Open positions
8
8
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 8 | $200k | $175k – $250k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Zilliz
By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
62/100
Growing
Open positions
11
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
122 days
faster than 12% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
HR
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Austin
Sep 2026
New location: Seattle
Sep 2026
New location: Seoul
Sep 2026
New location: New York
Sep 2026
Added Rollup to stack
Sep 2026
Added Recommender Systems to stack
Aug 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Added Reranking to stack
Aug 2026
Added Quantization to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Redwood City
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7 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 200-500 est. staff $225k Avg Salary
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Tokyo
Japan
Sales office
1 open roles 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
Earlier presence
Seoul, South Korea
Jobs
$175k – $250k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redwood City
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$175k – $225k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redwood City
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$175k – $250k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redwood City
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$175k – $225k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redwood City
Terraform
GCP
Helm
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
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Financials
Total raised
$60M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2022 | $60M | Details |