Five9 operates a unified cloud-native CX platform spanning voice, chat, and omnichannel engagement, now scaling AI-driven automation through adopting Kafka, Redis, and conversational AI services (Google Dialogflow CX, Amazon Lex, IBM Watson). The hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering (92 open roles) and sales (41), with active projects focused on next-generation microservices, agentic quality management, and CDP integration—indicating a shift from legacy premise-based systems toward distributed, AI-elevated cloud infrastructure.
Notable leadership hires: Account Director, Sales Director, Mid-Market Account Director
Five9 provides cloud-native contact center and customer experience solutions to mid-market and enterprise companies globally. The platform integrates voice, omnichannel messaging, and workforce management with embedded AI (Five9 Genius) to automate and personalize customer interactions. The company serves 3,000+ customers and works with 1,400+ partners. Five9 is a public company headquartered in San Ramon, CA, with operations spanning the United States, Philippines, Portugal, Canada, India, Germany, Colombia, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Current focus areas include migrating customers off legacy on-premises deployments, scaling the AI platform, improving reliability metrics, and launching new product modules via DocuSign CLM integration.
Five9 uses Java, Spring Framework, SQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Prometheus for core infrastructure; Salesforce and NetSuite for business systems; Elasticsearch Fluentd Kibana for logging; and Argo CD for deployment automation. They're actively adopting Kafka, Redis, and conversational AI services from Google, AWS, and IBM.
Active projects include building a next-generation cloud-native microservices platform, developing an agentic quality management system, scaling the AI platform, integrating with DocuSign CLM for product launches, building a customer data platform (CDP) for engagement, and enhancing voice solutions for contact centers.
Other companies in the same industry, closest in size