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dagger.io
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; Seattle, WA, USA; Portland, OR, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Vancouver, WA, USA; Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay; Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal; Remote
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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Dagger is a San Francisco-based, remote-first developer tools company building a programmable CI/CD and software-delivery platform. Its core product lets teams build, test, and deploy code repeatably across local machines, CI, and cloud environments, and it also sells Dagger Cloud for observability, tracing, and shared pipeline visibility.
Primary product
Programmable CI/CD engine plus Dagger Cloud observability/control plane
Founded
2018
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
CI/CD automation / DevOps platform
Offices
548 Market St., PMB 23743, San Francisco, CA 94104, United States
Business model
open-source core
freemium SaaS
team subscription SaaS
enterprise software
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-founder
Finance and Business Operations Manager
Operations Manager
Work & culture
Remote-first, asynchronous, open-source/community-led, engineering-heavy, and oriented around autonomy, repeatability, and collaboration.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public salary bands were found. Public hiring signals mention equity, 99% healthcare/vision/dental/supplemental premiums for employees and family, 4 weeks PTO plus an additional week around year-end, and discretionary professional-development funding.
Benefits
Equity
99% medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance premiums
4 weeks PTO
an additional week of PTO between Dec 25 and Jan 1
professional development funding on a case-by-case basis
remote-first asynchronous communication
employee autonomy
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium/open-source engine with paid Dagger Cloud plans: free individual tier, $50/month team tier, and custom enterprise pricing.
Differentiators
- —Local-first execution
- —Portable pipelines that run in dev, CI, and cloud
- —Cached by default with fine-grained cache control
- —Typed multi-language SDKs
- —Built-in tracing, logs, and metrics
- —Open-source engine with optional cloud control plane
- —AI/agent-friendly workflow primitives
Technology
Go
C#
Python
Java
TypeScript
Elixir
Rust
PHP
GraphQL
OCI containers
BuildKit
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Tekton
OpenTelemetry
Customers
Airbyte
Grafana Labs
Craft CMS
Safespring
Civo
OpenMeter
Puzzle
Competitors
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitLab CI
Tekton
Buildkite
Earthly
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
48K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Dagger Blog · Oct 2025
Major release focused on performance, caching, new APIs, and agent-building support.
Dagger Blog · Aug 2025
Introduces evaluation workflows for LLMs and AI pipelines inside Dagger.
Dagger Blog · Aug 2025
Company perspective on how CI is changing as AI and agents become central to software delivery.
Dagger Blog · May 2025
Launches module discovery, reuse, and governance features for Dagger Cloud customers.
Dagger Blog · Jan 2025
Announces a new version of Dagger Cloud with improved tracing and observability.
Jobs and careers at Dagger
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