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Overview
Aviator is a San Francisco-based developer productivity platform that helps engineering teams ship AI-generated code safely, with products for deterministic verification, scalable merge queues, deployment/release orchestration, PR inbox management, and agentic runbooks.
Primary product
MergeQueue
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer productivity / engineering productivity tools
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
United States
Croatia
Japan
Business model
B2B SaaS
per-seat subscription
freemium
enterprise SaaS
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$2.4M
Latest round
Seed Round · May 2022
Latest amount
$2.3M
May 2022 · Y Combinator, Elad Gil, AirAngels, Xoogler Ventures
Sep 2021 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Head of Engineering
Head of Content
Work & culture
Builder-heavy, ex-Googler, engineering-productivity-first culture focused on removing friction from development workflows, keeping main branches green, and shipping safely at high velocity.
Compensation
Public YC job listings show a Software Engineer, Fullstack role at $120K-$160K, a Senior Software Engineer, Founding team role at $160K-$200K, and a GTM Engineering Intern role at $4K-$6K/month; no broader public compensation policy was found.
Product & market
Pricing
Free tier for individuals plus per-developer monthly pricing for teams ($20/dev/month Team, $50/dev/month Scale) and custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —Deterministic intent verification with audit trails for AI-generated code
- —Parallel, affected-target-aware merge queues for monorepos
- —CI/CD-agnostic integrations across major build systems and source control tools
- —On-prem / self-hosted enterprise deployment options with SOC 2 Type II posture
- —Stacked PRs, Runbooks, Inbox, and Releases combine into a broader developer-experience workflow suite
- —Free individual-developer tier for adoption and PLG
Technology
Go
Python
Shell
GitHub
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Buildkite
Jenkins
CircleCI
Argo
Bazel
Nx
Pants
Turborepo
Gradle
Maven
Yarn
GitBook
Cloudflare Turnstile
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Customers
DoorDash
Notion
Reforge
Shippabo
Prodigy
Secureframe
Butternut Box
Color Genomics
Amplitude
Benchling
Lightspeed
Bosch
Competitors
GitHub Merge Queue
Mergify
Graphite
LinearB
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$5M-$10M (est.)
Estimated monthly visits
72.6K
Jobs and careers at Aviator
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