Lob runs direct mail as software: a Go, Node.js and TypeScript stack on AWS with Nomad, Consul and Terraform, plus Temporal workflows and Kafka/Flink streaming behind print and delivery orchestration. Hiring tilts sales-led, but security work stands out, with detection engineering, vulnerability management and cloud misconfiguration risk all flagged in job posts.
Lob, founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, provides a platform that automates the creation, printing, delivery and measurement of direct mail. Its offering includes APIs and address verification, letting businesses send personalized mail programmatically instead of through traditional print vendors. The company sells to businesses running high-volume mail programs, with sales, customer success and implementation teams supporting adoption. Lob is privately held, employs 201–500 people and currently hires in the United States.
Lob uses AWS, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Cloudflare, Go, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Temporal, Kafka, Apache Flink, Snowflake, Redshift and Datadog, with Salesforce, NetSuite and Gong on the business side.
Yes, Lob is hiring at a steady pace in the United States, led by sales roles, with additional openings in engineering, finance, operations, security and support, mostly at senior and manager levels.
Job posts point to personalized direct mail programs at scale, a modern logistics and fulfillment engine, customer product adoption playbooks, and a security build-out covering detection engineering and vulnerability management.
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