Defakto jobs, careers, and hiring context

Explore Defakto careers and hiring status. Find jobs at Defakto and official application links when roles are open. Funding stage: Series B. Headcount: 11-50. Defakto (formerly SPIRL, rebranded October 2025) builds a non-human identity and access management platform that replaces static secrets and overprivileged service accounts with short-lived, cryptographically verifiable workload identities. Built on the open SPIFFE standard, it discovers, issues, enforces, and governs identities for services, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, and AI agents across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by Eli Nesterov (CTO) and Danny Oliveri (CEO), it was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security in 2025.

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