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Company brief · updated 2026-10-18

Plane

plane.com · B2B · Plane is the payroll and HR platform your agents and tools connect to. Easily hire, pay, and onboard employees and contractors in the U.S. and worldwide. Open API, MCP, and CLI so you can ditch the busywork. For good.

33open roles
1new in 30 days
0closed in 30 days
0remote-eligible
slowinghiring velocity

What they're building

Enterprise sales and pre-sales coverage for Cloud, self-hosted and sovereign-cloud deployments strong signal

Today: Postings describe an open, adaptable work management platform for projects, knowledge and requests, sold as Plane Cloud, self-hosted or sovereign cloud

Roles: Account Executive, Enterprise · Solutions Architect · Customer Success

Requirements mention: self-hosted deployments · sovereign clouds · security questionnaires · compliance reviews · technical discovery · self-hosted deployment · migration path

Inference: enterprise selling and technical pre-sales are being built out across six countries, with deployment-model questions (Cloud, self-hosted, sovereign) handled in the sales cycle.

Outbound go-to-market function moderate signal

Today: Postings say these roles build the outbound function that sells the work management platform

Roles: GTM Engineer

Requirements mention: cold outbound · enrichment waterfalls · deliverability · warmup · SPF · DKIM · DMARC · Clay

Inference: three GTM Engineer roles (Canada, United States, India) point to an outbound build-out run through Clay and email deliverability setup.

Self-hosted and sovereign-cloud deployment infrastructure moderate signal

Today: Postings name Plane Cloud, sovereign clouds, customer-managed infrastructure and air-gapped environments

Roles: Principal Engineer, DevOps · Solutions Architect

Requirements mention: Kubernetes · GitOps · Argo CD · secrets management · container scanning · self-hosted deployment · Helm

Inference: the DevOps role is scoped to Plane Cloud, sovereign clouds, customer-managed infrastructure and air-gapped environments, which suggests deployment work is a current engineering priority.

Local-first client and collaborative editor moderate signal

Today: Postings describe a local-first client with dense issue views, a collaborative editor and an offline and caching layer

Roles: Principal Engineer, Frontend · Senior Staff Engineer, Frontend · Software Engineer, Frontend (React) · Software Engineer, Full Stack

Requirements mention: offline behavior · WebSockets · CRDTs · operational transformation · client-side persistence · ProseMirror · Service Workers · IndexedDB

Inference: five frontend and full-stack postings, all in the United States or India, name offline, sync or collaborative-editing requirements, which suggests the client's offline and collaborative editing layer is being built out.

Integrations and importers moderate signal

Today: Postings say integrations and importers carry work into the platform from Slack, GitHub, Jira and Linear

Roles: Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js) · Forward Deployed Engineer

Requirements mention: queue and worker systems · OAuth · webhook delivery · rate limits · idempotency · integration work

Inference: two Backend (Node.js) roles (United States, India) plus a Forward Deployed Engineer point to continued work on importers and integrations with other work tools.

Agent layer inside the work management platform weak signal

Today: Posting describes a layer that lets agents read workspace context, take action and hand control back to a human

Roles: Software Engineer, AI Application

Requirements mention: agent systems · tool calling · approval gates · permission model · evaluation harness

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Go-To-Market (GTM)17
Engineering15
Product and Design1

Of 33 open roles, 17 are in Go-To-Market, 15 in Engineering and 1 in Product and Design. All Engineering roles are in the United States or India, while GTM roles are spread across six countries. The postings describe a work management platform, which does not match the payroll and HR product on plane.com, so this brief uses only the postings and the company and domain match should be confirmed.

Who they need

Seniority: Mostly senior (17) and mid-level (11), with 2 principal, 1 staff, 1 manager and 1 unknown.

Skills named most: Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, GitHub, AWS, Python/Django, Golang, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Clay, HubSpot

Locations: United States (14), India (10), Canada (3), Italy (2), United Kingdom (2), Germany (2); no roles are listed as remote.

How to use this

If you're applying: Apply by department and location. Engineering roles are all in the United States or India, while GTM roles span the US, India, Canada, Italy, the UK and Germany. Each posting lists hard requirements you can check before applying (for example SAML, OIDC and SCIM for the Germany Solutions Architect). Check that the posting is for the work management product, not the payroll company at plane.com.

If you're selling or recruiting: Focus on the enterprise sales and solutions architect roles across the United States, India, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and Germany. Hiring is slowing: 1 role opened in the last 30 days against 4 in the prior 30, and none closed. Confirm you are contacting the work management company, not the payroll company at plane.com.

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Open roles (33)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Account Executive, EnterpriseGo-To-Market (GTM)India2026-10-05
Principal Engineer, DevOpsEngineeringIndia2026-09-07
Principal Engineer, FrontendEngineeringIndia2026-09-07
GTM EngineerGo-To-Market (GTM)Canada2026-08-19
Customer SuccessGo-To-Market (GTM)Canada2026-08-19
Software Engineer, Full StackEngineeringUnited States2026-08-18
Solutions ArchitectGo-To-Market (GTM)Italy2026-08-18
Software Engineer, AI ApplicationEngineeringUnited States2026-08-18
Solutions ArchitectGo-To-Market (GTM)United Kingdom2026-08-18
Account Executive, EnterpriseGo-To-Market (GTM)United Kingdom2026-08-18
Account Executive, EnterpriseGo-To-Market (GTM)Italy2026-08-18
Account Executive, EnterpriseGo-To-Market (GTM)Canada2026-08-18
Solutions ArchitectGo-To-Market (GTM)Germany2026-08-18
Account Executive, EnterpriseGo-To-Market (GTM)Germany2026-08-18
Customer SuccessGo-To-Market (GTM)United States2026-08-18
Forward Deployed EngineerEngineeringUnited States2026-08-18
Solutions ArchitectGo-To-Market (GTM)United States2026-08-18
Senior Product DesignerProduct and DesignUnited States2026-08-17
Software Engineer, Mobile (Flutter)EngineeringUnited States2026-08-17
Senior Software Engineer, Quality EngineeringEngineeringUnited States2026-08-14
Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js)EngineeringUnited States2026-08-14
Senior Staff Engineer, FrontendEngineeringUnited States2026-08-14
GTM EngineerGo-To-Market (GTM)United States2026-08-14
Software Engineer, Frontend (React)EngineeringUnited States2026-08-14
Account Executive, EnterpriseGo-To-Market (GTM)United States2026-08-14
Software Engineer, Backend (Python)EngineeringUnited States2026-08-14
GTM EngineerGo-To-Market (GTM)India2026-07-29
Senior Software Engineer, Quality EngineeringEngineeringIndia2026-07-14
Software Engineer, Backend (Python)EngineeringIndia2026-07-14
Software Engineer, Frontend (React)EngineeringIndia2026-04-22
Senior Content MarketerGo-To-Market (GTM)India2026-03-23
Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js)EngineeringIndia2025-12-26
Product Marketing ManagerGo-To-Market (GTM)India2025-12-17