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.
Graduate Software Engineer - Open Source and Linux, Canonical Ubuntu
Company: Canonical
Location: Anywhere
Posted Nov 19, 2025
Canonical promotes itself as a leading open-source provider offering global remote software engineering roles with competitive compensation, career growth opportunities, and a collaborative work environment. The job description highlights innovative projects, professional development, and a commitment to diversity and excellence.
Operations Analyst
Company: Oddball
Location: USA
Posted Nov 19, 2025
Oddball is a company that values learning, growth, and making a big impact. They are seeking an Operations Analyst to support their COO and Program Managers in maintaining operational excellence, ensuring compliance with federal contracting standards, and scaling internal processes. The role involves developing and maintaining internal operational processes, documenting SOPs and templates, managing risk tracking, assisting with project-level financial activities, and providing day-to-day support across business operations.
Revenue Account Executive (Donor Fundraising)
Company: Code.org
Location: Remote
Posted Nov 18, 2025
The Revenue Account Executive role at Code.org involves identifying, cultivating, and closing new funding partnerships with individuals, foundations, and corporations to support the organization's mission of expanding access to computer science education. The ideal candidate is a proactive relationship builder with a background in technology or software sales, enterprise business development, and a passion for computer science, AI, and educational equity. The role is critical to growing Code.org's revenue base and ensuring the long-term sustainability of its programs.
Senior Frontend Software Engineer
Company: Nearform
Location: Canada
Posted Nov 19, 2025
Nearform is a global team of data, AI, and engineering experts who build intelligent digital solutions for leading enterprises. They are seeking a Senior JavaScript Engineer to design and build applications using JavaScript, with a focus on React, Material UI, and Storybook. The role involves collaborating with clients, optimizing application performance, and working in an agile environment. Nearform offers competitive benefits and a flexible remote work culture.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Marketerx
Location: USA
Posted Nov 18, 2025
The company is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Security Engineer to join their founding engineering team. The role involves architecting a resilient, scalable, and secure foundation for their autonomous marketing platform, with a focus on building world-class cloud infrastructure, automating CI/CD pipelines, implementing comprehensive security measures, enabling hypergrowth, and driving intelligence-led operations. The ideal candidate is a seasoned DevOps or SRE professional with a security-first mindset and expertise in cloud platforms, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Company: Fortive
Location: Remote
Posted Nov 18, 2025
The text describes a highly skilled DevOps engineer with extensive experience in Azure infrastructure management, automation, and cloud services. The engineer is proficient in various tools and technologies, including Terraform, ARM templates, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring solutions, and security best practices. They have a strong background in cloud environments, Agile methodologies, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Alliance Manager
Company: Fortive
Location: Remote
Posted Nov 18, 2025
The text describes the role of managing strategic alliances with high-impact partners to drive mutual business growth and innovation. It involves developing partnership frameworks, conducting strategic meetings, identifying opportunities for co-development and co-marketing, collaborating with internal teams, applying financial acumen, and achieving alliance partner quota targets. The ideal candidate should have experience in partnership management, working with global consulting firms or Fortune 500 companies, excellent relationship-building skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
Senior Manager - Technical Accounting & Compliance
Company: Fortive
Location: USA
Posted Nov 19, 2025
The job description outlines a leadership role responsible for managing staff, leading SOX testing programs, providing training, and ensuring compliance. It requires a strong background in accounting, US GAAP, PCAOB standards, and SOX compliance. The ideal candidate should have excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently.
Senior Software Developer
Company: Fortive
Location: Remote
Posted Nov 18, 2025
The text describes the role of a Product Manager UX and team, outlining responsibilities such as breaking down business requirements, designing and implementing new features, collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring team members, driving continuous improvement, and having a passion for understanding customers and creating simple yet effective user experiences. The ideal candidate should have experience with front-end frameworks, strongly typed JavaScript, CSS layout, SQL and NoSQL databases, RESTful APIs, C and the .NET ecosystem, CI/CD and IaC, JavaScript bundlers, telemetry monitoring and observability tools, design systems and component libraries, end-to-end testing frameworks, microfrontend frameworks, cloud and container technologies, and developing enterprise or SaaS products.
Lead Anti-Cheat Client Engineer
Company: Scopely
Location: USA
Posted Nov 19, 2025
Scopely is seeking a Lead AntiCheat Client Engineer for an unannounced AAA crossplatform game. The role involves leading the design and implementation of client-side anticheat modules, reverse engineering suspected cheats, and creating architecture diagrams. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong systems-level programming skills, and experience with security or anticheat software.
Senior Manager
Company: Rob Levine Legal Solutions
Location: USA
Posted Nov 19, 2025
Rob Levine Legal Solutions is a leading provider of record retrieval services, specializing in efficiently gathering medical records and bills for personal injury and other legal clients. The company is seeking a highly organized and experienced Senior Manager to oversee record retrieval operations, manage a team, optimize processes, and ensure high-quality service delivery. The role requires a strategic thinker who can lead cross-functional teams, drive operational efficiencies, and uphold the company's commitment to delivering accurate and timely records.
Tech Lead / Manager - AI Evaluation Science
Company: Diligent Robotics
Location: Remote
Posted Nov 18, 2025
The company is developing AI-powered humanoid robots to work alongside humans in various environments. They are seeking a Tech Lead Manager for AI Evaluation Science to lead a team responsible for measuring and validating the performance of their AI systems in real-world scenarios. The role involves defining metrics, building evaluation pipelines, and ensuring the robots meet high standards for safety, reliability, and human trust.