Full-Time
Engineering Manager
Core Infrastructure
Posted on 10/31/2025
Compa
51-200 employees
Real-time compensation data for tech firms
Compensation Overview
$185k - $215k/yr
Remote in USA + 3 more
More locations: Boston, MA, USA | Irvine, CA, USA | Denver, CO, USA
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- Proven experience as a technical lead or manager in an infrastructure or DevOps-focused team
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, hosting, service reliability, and platform scaling
- Ability to contribute to code, perform oncall duties, and review high-quality engineering work
- Strong project management skills with a track record of delivering high-impact infrastructure projects
- Experience building and scaling developer tools, CI/CD, observability, or internal platforms
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional leads
- Comfort owning budgeting, vendor evaluation, and managing infrastructure costs
- Build and lead Compa’s first infrastructure team
- Set strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for core infrastructure
- Be a hands-on contributor and technical mentor (including oncall rotation)
- Own major company initiatives like multi-cloud support and data encryption
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and cross-functional leadership to identify opportunities and de-risk scaling challenges
- Manage Compa’s hosting budget and vendor selection for cloud infrastructure
- Experience leading a team through multi-cloud migrations or encryption key management
- A “player-coach” mindset—able to ship while building the team and processes
- Familiarity with MLOps, AI infrastructure, or tooling for data-intensive systems
- Experience supporting both internal engineering velocity and production system reliability
- Strong mentorship abilities and a passion for developing high-performing engineers
- Experience building infra in a fast-paced startup or high-growth B2B SaaS environment
Compa provides real-time compensation market data for tech companies, collected from applicant tracking systems of leading tech firms. It serves as an offers-based market data network, selling access to data that shows metrics such as the average total offer for software engineering positions. The product works by aggregating compensation data from ATSs and making it accessible to compensation teams so they can benchmark and calibrate their offers. This approach differs from competitors by focusing on real-time, data-driven offers gathered directly from real-world hiring processes and by leveraging a network that aggregates offers across top tech companies. The company’s goal is to help tech companies stay competitive in attracting and retaining talent by preventing under- or overpaying, and to expand its data network through continued funding and partnerships.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$48.9M
Headquarters
Newport Beach, California
Founded
2020
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Compensation shifting from back-office to board-level responsibility drives enterprise adoption.
- Labor market volatility increases demand for real-time data over static annual surveys.
- Syndio integration expands TAM by bundling equity and market data for compliance-focused buyers.
What critics are saying
- Payscale and Radford integrate real-time ATS data, commoditizing Compa's core differentiation.
- New York AG subpoena halts network expansion amid privacy probes into data-sharing practices.
- OpenAI releases enterprise compensation AI trained on public datasets, bypassing proprietary networks.
What makes Compa unique
- 9 million real-time market observations across 50+ countries and sectors beyond tech.
- AI agents automate compensation analysis, converting weeks of manual work into minutes.
- Direct integrations with HCM, ATS, and stock systems enable automated data participation.
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6 month growth
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↓ -1%2 year growth
↓ -3%Compa, an AI-driven compensation intelligence platform, has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Jump Capital. Crosslink Capital, Storm Ventures, Permanent Capital, HR Tech Investments LLC, and PagsGroup participated in the round. The company replaces traditional annual compensation surveys with real-time market data from its network of nine million observations. Its platform allows enterprises to compare salaries, equity and incentives against peers, using AI to identify risks and accelerate decision-making. Fortune 500 companies already use the platform to manage compensation decisions across roles, regions and markets. The funding will support expansion as enterprises move away from manual processes towards automated intelligence. Compa's total funding now stands at an undisclosed amount, with the platform addressing what the company calls one of enterprises' largest financial investments.
Compa raises $35M Series B to accelerate AI for enterprise compensation. AI compensation platform helps companies compete for top talent using a network of nine million real-time market observations, trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises. NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Compa, a leading provider of AI-driven compensation intelligence, announced $35 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Jump Capital, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Storm Ventures, Permanent Capital, HR Tech Investments LLC (an affiliate of Indeed, Inc.), and PagsGroup. For decades, enterprise companies have relied on annual compensation surveys and spreadsheets to set pay, managing one of their largest and most scrutinized financial investments with backward-looking benchmarks. That model is under increasing pressure as labor market volatility pushes boards to demand greater precision and consistency in decisions that affect billions of dollars in annual payroll. Compa replaces static surveys with software-delivered market data drawn directly from systems of record across its customer network. Companies can compare what they pay across salary, equity, and incentives against their peers in the market, and then leverage AI to accelerate insight discovery, surface risk, and scale intelligence in real-time. The funding will support Compa's continued growth as enterprise companies seek to replace manual and time-consuming processes with automated intelligence. Compa's agents connect to verified, real-time data to continuously perform market analysis across roles, levels, and geographies, speeding up work that previously required weeks of effort. With human-led decision-making accelerated by AI, compensation teams can move faster to compete in hot talent markets. Compensation executives at some of the world's most influential companies are already applying AI to improve pay decisions. Mike Foley, Director of Compensation at OpenAI, shared, "In an era of accelerating market change and growing diversity in compensation signals, Compa replaces static surveys with current market data and AI agents to help compensation teams operate with greater speed and strategic clarity. The platform pairs advanced technology with rigorous, practitioner-informed design, reflecting a deep understanding of enterprise compensation in complex, fast-evolving markets." "Compensation teams are responsible for managing multi-billion-dollar portfolios in volatile markets," said Charlie Franklin, Co-founder and CEO of Compa. "With stakes this high, adopting AI to help compensation experts make smarter decisions is an essential competitive mandate. Compa's global data network and innovative technology make this possible, and this investment accelerates our ability to scale agentic AI to every enterprise." "Most enterprise AI today is still generic. The real impact comes when AI is applied to specific, high-stakes decisions, and compensation is one of the biggest and least modernized of them," shared Tarun Gupta, Partner at Jump Capital. "We invested in Compa because it pairs high-quality, real-world compensation data with a disciplined approach that Fortune 50 companies already rely on and trust. That combination gives decision-makers far better visibility and control over how pay decisions are made." Compa's momentum reflects a broader shift in how companies approach pay decisions, as data-driven software becomes essential to competing for talent across roles, regions, and markets. Global organizations use Compa to apply compensation decisions across the business, even as labor conditions continue to change. As labor markets remain volatile, compensation is shifting from a back-office function to a board-level responsibility. Software that brings real-time data and automated analysis to pay decision-making is becoming core enterprise infrastructure, and Compa is helping define what that next chapter looks like with AI. About Compa Compa is the leading provider of AI-driven compensation intelligence for enterprise teams managing high-stakes pay decisions in fast-moving markets. Its compensation intelligence platform combines real-time market data with AI agents that think, decide, and act like your comp team. Compa automates data participation from HCM, ATS, and stock systems, replacing manual surveys with current benchmarks for cash, stock, offers, and skills-based compensation. With advanced privacy controls and instant, defensible insights, Compa gives compensation teams the clarity and confidence to compete and win in the market.
Compa's integration within Syndio's Pay Finder™ delivers real-time market benchmarks alongside internal equity insights, helping compensation teams make fast, fair, and consistent pay decisions from day one.SEATTLE, May 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Syndio, the industry pioneer in global, fair pay solutions, announces an integration between its Pay Finder™ solution and Compa, the largest network for real-time offer and employee market data. The integration gives compensation and talent acquisition teams a unified view of equitable pay ranges, internal compensation guidance, and real-time market data.Available now in early access, the integration solves one of the biggest challenges in compensation: how to make fast, fair, and market-informed pay decisions in fast-moving, regulated environments. Displaying three critical data sources in a single view – Syndio's equitable pay range, the company's internal pay range, and Compa's real-time market benchmarks – brings unprecedented clarity and speed to salary decisions for every new hire, promotion, or transfer."The integration of Compa's data into Pay Finder™ provides us with more valuable insights at the moment decisions are made," said Athar Siddiqee, VP of Global Total Rewards at Micron Technology. "By being able to view dynamic market data alongside our internal and equitable ranges, we're able to move faster, make more consistent and appropriate decisions, and avoid surprises down the line."Pay Finder's™ new capabilities are valuable to compensation and talent acquisition (TA) teams who want to simplify offer collaboration, streamline approvals, and improve consistency in pay decisions. The integration makes it easier to align pay decisions with equity and transparency goals, whether to meet internal commitments or regulatory requirements, while also keeping pace with the market using real-time data rather than traditional surveys."Our customers trust Syndio to help them stay ahead of evolving pay transparency regulations and deliver on their commitments to pay equity," said Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio. "This integration brings fairness and competitiveness together — helping companies go beyond analysis and reporting to bake equity into every pay decision.""Fair and competitive pay shouldn't be at odds, they should work hand in hand," said Charlie Franklin, CEO of Compa
Analysis of real-time offer data enables compensation teams to identify market changes faster and adapt their strategies to improve competitiveness and manage cost. Enterprise companies like Airbnb, NVIDIA, Stripe, Instacart, Block, DoorDash, Autodesk and Marvell Technology are among Compa’s customers.
Compa, a Newport Beach, CA-based compensation market data provider, raised $10M in Series A funding.