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Mattermost

mattermost.com · B2B · Zero-trust collaboration, automation and AI in private cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments. Built for national security, critical infrastructure, and regulated enterprises.

11open roles
0new in 30 days
3closed in 30 days
0remote-eligible
insufficient_datahiring velocity

What they're building

Federal and intelligence-community sales capacity strong signal

Today: Collaboration platform positioned for national security, intelligence and critical infrastructure buyers

Roles: Senior Account Executive - Federal (Intelligence Community Focus) · Senior Account Executive - Federal (US ARMY) · Account Manager - Federal · Senior Technical Account Manager (Federal)

Requirements mention: accreditation workflows · co-selling with Federal Systems Integrators · contracting workflows · selling into US Federal or regulated environments · DevSecOps tools and workflows

Inference: the company is adding sales and technical account coverage for US federal buyers, with some deals run through integrator partners. Three of these four roles were the only roles opened in the last 30 days. The two Account Executive postings are split by buyer (intelligence community, US Army), which suggests federal coverage is being organized by agency or segment.

Scaling the core web platform for defense and critical infrastructure teams strong signal

Today: Secure messaging and collaboration platform with a Sovereign AI offering, deployed self-hosted, in private cloud or air-gapped

Roles: Staff Full Stack Engineer · Senior Full Stack Engineer

Requirements mention: high-availability service architecture · distributed systems · MCP servers · WebSocket API design

Inference: the core web platform is being scaled for high availability. MCP server experience, requested in 3 of the 4 postings, suggests work connecting the platform to AI agents, in line with the Sovereign AI offering on the site.

Mobile real-time communications and offline capability weak signal

Today: The Mattermost mobile experience, per the posting

Roles: Senior Mobile Engineer

Requirements mention: offline-capable systems · real-time communications · WebRTC · CallKit

No inferred next step; the signal rests on one posting.

Reliability of the infrastructure running the platform weak signal

Today: The infrastructure powering the secure collaboration platform, per the posting

Roles: Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Requirements mention: Kubernetes · infrastructure-as-code · Terraform · AWS · GCP

No inferred next step; the signal rests on one posting.

Governance, risk and compliance across federal and commercial markets weak signal

Today: Security and compliance positioning for regulated enterprises and government buyers

Roles: GRC Manager

Requirements mention: CMMC · NIST series (800-171 / 800-53) · SOC 2 Type II · third-party and vendor risk management program

No inferred next step; the posting states the role will own and modernize the program across federal and commercial markets.

Enterprise and regional sales outside US federal, including Japan and the UK weak signal

Today: Deployments for regulated enterprises in segments the site lists, such as financial services, healthcare and energy, with regional specialists

Roles: Senior Account Executive (Enterprise) · Commercial Account Manager (UK) · Technical Sales Engineer/ Lead

Requirements mention: selling into regulated environments · Native Japanese language skills · GenAI · on premise · air gapped

No inferred next step; there is one posting per market and none describes the scope of the market.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Sales5
Engineering5
Security1

Of 14 open roles, 7 are in Sales, 6 in Engineering and 1 in Security, so Sales and Engineering are close to even, with Sales one role ahead.

Who they need

Seniority: 9 senior, 2 mid, 2 staff and 1 unknown across 14 open roles.

Skills named most: PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, TypeScript, React, REST and WebSocket APIs, distributed systems, high-availability service architecture, Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot, Kubernetes, Salesforce, Microsoft 365

Locations: No remote roles listed. 10 roles are US-based (2 of them list Washington, District of Columbia), 2 in Ontario, Canada, 1 in Tokyo, Japan and 1 in the United Kingdom.

How to use this

If you're applying: Start with the federal sales and core web platform roles if your background matches; the fit lines show the skills the postings name most. The four full stack postings list Go, React, TypeScript and PostgreSQL, and all four name AI coding tools.

If you're selling or recruiting: 7 of 14 open roles are in Sales, 4 of them federal. Salesforce appears in 6 of the 7 sales postings. Federal experience appears in the 4 federal postings, and security review in the 2 federal Account Executive postings. Four sales postings name Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365. All four full stack postings name Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot, and the SRE posting names Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and GCP. Three roles opened in the last 30 days, all in federal sales, and none closed in that period.

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Open roles (11)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Senior Account Executive - Federal (Intelligence Community Focus)SalesUnited States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States2026-09-17
Account Executive - Federal (US ARMY)SalesUnited States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States2026-09-17
Account Manager - FederalSalesUnited States2026-09-15
Senior Technical Account Manager (Federal)SalesUnited States2026-09-11
Senior Mobile Engineer EngineeringUnited States2026-09-11
Staff Full Stack EngineerEngineeringUnited States2026-08-26
Staff Full Stack EngineerEngineeringToronto, Ontario, Canada2026-08-26
Senior Full Stack EngineerEngineeringOntario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada2026-08-07
Senior Full Stack EngineerEngineeringUnited States2026-08-07
Technical Sales Engineer/ Lead SalesTokyo, Japan2026-08-06
GRC ManagerSecurityUnited States2026-07-02