Linear
Linear allows the user to manage software development and track bugs. Built for speed and efficiency. The founders started Linear from their own frustrations building software projects in successful high-growth companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, and Uber. The founders wanted to create the tools that focus us and its team on making progress, not get in the way. Tools that are fast and efficient. Spee
2 of 32 roles
Roles are read from Linear’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
Linear hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- Linear has the 158th most open roles of 2,939 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 32 open roles is 1.8× the average Growth startup here (17.3).
- 38% of openings are in Engineering, then Product (28%).
- Most roles are mid level (56%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 303, these openings would grow headcount by up to 11%.
- 0% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
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- 91% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 100% of postings mention equity.
- 32 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 4 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Momentum, explained
- Linear hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 32
- Roles added in 30 days
- 32
- Roles added in 90 days
- 32
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #158
- of 2,939 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.11
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 32
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 5
- 16% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 10
- 31% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 4 months
- Oldest: 67 months
Pay
- Roles that post pay
- 0%
- 0 of 32
- Mention equity
- 100%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 91%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 5 yrs
Breakdowns
- 1Engineering1238%
- 2Product928%
- 3Other39%
- 4Design26%
- 5Marketing26%
- 6Sales26%
- 7Customer13%
- 8Operations13%
- 1Mid level1856%
- 2Manager722%
- 3Staff722%
- 1Remote2991%
- 2Hybrid39%
- 1North America1856%
- 2Europe619%
- 3Singapore516%
- 4London26%
- 5Australia13%
- 1Full-time32100%
- 1GTM1753%
- 2Product1341%
- 3Operations26%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Linear role.