Azion operates a globally distributed edge platform built on Go, Rust, Nginx and Envoy, with Kubernetes, Terraform and ArgoCD driving infrastructure. Adoption of Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral alongside GCP points to AI workloads at the edge, while PCI DSS v4.0.1 readiness and Tenable/Rapid7 scanning show a compliance push. Hiring tilts toward senior sales roles plus a CMO search, signaling a go-to-market scale-up over pure engineering growth.
Notable leadership hires: Chief Marketing Officer
Azion, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, provides a platform for building, securing and running applications on distributed edge infrastructure. Its capabilities span web application firewall, application acceleration, data streaming, real-time analytics and edge AI. The company is privately held with 201–500 employees and hires across Brazil and the United States. Its teams cover engineering, sales, security, support, marketing and finance.
Azion runs Go, Rust, Python and JavaScript with Nginx, Envoy and Caddy, orchestrated via Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and ArgoCD, with PostgreSQL, MySQL and AWS. It is adopting Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, GCP and gRPC.
Azion is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and hires in both the United States and Brazil.
Yes, sales is the largest share of Azion's open roles, mostly senior-level, alongside a Chief Marketing Officer search, though overall hiring velocity is currently minimal.
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