Background Investigation Jobs
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Background Investigation positions are experiencing a surge as companies tighten compliance and data security. The defense, aviation, healthcare, and fintech sectors now require rigorous background checks to meet regulatory mandates and protect critical assets. This demand fuels rapid hiring, offering professionals a chance to work on high-impact projects and stay ahead of evolving threats.
Roles span from investigator, analyst, and compliance officer to field officer and digital forensic specialist. Typical duties include gathering public and proprietary records, conducting interviews, verifying credentials, and leveraging tools such as LexisNexis, Accuity, Palantir, and OSINT platforms like Maltego. Analysts also apply risk scoring models and generate actionable reports for hiring managers or security teams.
Salary transparency is vital because background investigators deal with sensitive data and high-stakes decisions. Clear pay ranges help attract talent with niche skills, benchmark against cybersecurity or risk management roles, and ensure fair compensation for the rigorous training required, such as CBSP or CISA certifications.
Engineering Manager - Solutions Engineering
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with a distributed team of over 1200 colleagues in 75+ countries. Canonical is looking for a software engineering team lead to drive a new initiative in model-driven operations and infrastructure-as-code, with a focus on Python development and automation.
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. The company is hiring a Site Reliability Engineering Manager to lead a high-performance team in a distributed environment. The role involves leading a team, representing the IS team to stakeholders, organizing internal projects, mentoring engineers, and ensuring proper team focus on priorities and deliverables.
Growth Engineer
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is seeking an experienced Growth Engineer to join their team and take ownership of their marketing technology stack, data architecture, and infrastructure. The role involves designing and scaling systems that power marketing automation, lifecycle marketing, and data-driven growth initiatives. The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology, data, and the use of technology in marketing, and will thrive in an environment that emphasizes ownership, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure - Kafka
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is building a comprehensive automation suite for multicloud and on-premise data solutions. The data platform team develops managed solutions for various data stores and technologies, focusing on fault-tolerant, mission-critical distributed systems. They are looking for candidates with experience in Big Data technologies like Kafka and Spark, and offer a fully remote working environment with competitive pay and benefits.
Junior Linux Kernel Engineer - Ubuntu
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on Ubuntu. The company is global, distributed, and offers opportunities for junior professionals to work on the Linux kernel. Canonical values diversity, remote work, and personal development.
Software Engineer - Python - Container Images
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They offer a rewarding career working with the best people in technology, building container images and contributing to open source projects. The company values collaboration, diversity, and knowledge sharing.
DRG Clinical Validation Nurse
Company: MedReview
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
MedReview is seeking a registered nurse with clinical validation experience to join their coding department. The role involves performing clinical validation, interpreting clinical guidelines, and maintaining high-quality case reviews in a fast-paced environment. The position offers remote work flexibility, competitive salary, and benefits.
Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is hiring Rust Engineering Leads to drive adoption of Rust in their open-source projects and platforms like Ubuntu. The role involves designing software, advocating for Rust, and collaborating globally in a distributed environment with opportunities for growth and innovation.
Engineering Manager for IAM (Identity and Access Management)
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They are hiring an Engineering Manager for IAM to build high-performing services and secure identity and access management solutions. The role involves working with upstream open source projects and internal teams to deliver high quality software.
Engineering Manager - Managed Services
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. They offer a globally remote role for an Engineering Manager to manage a growing engineering team and deliver quality managed services. The company values diversity, offers a distributed work environment, and provides benefits like a personal learning budget and annual compensation review.
C, Golang Software Engineer working on dqlite, a Raft extension for SQLite
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, with a focus on Ubuntu. They are hiring a software developer to work on dqlite, their distributed SQLite database. The company offers a remote position with opportunities for learning and development, and values diversity and inclusion.
Partner Sales Manager - Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Company: Canonical
Location: Remote
Posted Dec 02, 2025
Canonical promotes itself as a leading open source provider with widespread enterprise adoption and global collaboration. The text highlights growth opportunities, key partnerships, and a job opening for a Partner Sales Manager with HPE, emphasizing innovation and open source capabilities.