Timeplot · Role Signal · Issue 009

GTM Engineer is sales ops
that writes code

We compared 313 GTM Engineer job postings at 241 companies with 1,148 sales and revenue operations postings · as of November 7, 2026

Companies hiring

241

313 postings, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026

Post exactly one

81%

of 241 companies hiring

Ask for coding

69%

vs 23% of sales and revenue operations

Median base salary

$165K

vs $135K for sales and revenue operations

What the postings ask for

Share of postings that ask for each skill: 1,107 sales and revenue operations postings and 307 GTM Engineer postings, November 2025 to October 2026.

Sales or Revenue Operations

GTM Engineer

Code (Python, JavaScript, SQL)

23%

69%

APIs, webhooks, integrations

12%

54%

AI tools or LLMs

27%

64%

Clay, n8n, Zapier and similar

48%

Salesforce, HubSpot, or a CRM

66%

57%

Dashboards and forecasting

38%

13%

A specific degree

31%

Years of experience

83%

63%

One GTM Engineer per company

Share of the 241 companies hiring a GTM Engineer, by how many GTM Engineer jobs they posted from November 2025 to October 2026.

1 posting

81%

2 postings

14%

3 to 5 postings

6 or more postings

The GTM Engineer stack

Share of the 307 GTM Engineer postings that name each tool or language.

Clay

38%

Python

38%

SQL

38%

Salesforce

37%

An LLM by name (GPT, Claude)

36%

HubSpot

28%

n8n

21%

Zapier

21%

Apollo

11%

What it pays

US base salary in job postings for individual contributors, November 2025 to October 2026, using the middle of each posted range. Hover over a row to see all six numbers.

GTM EngineerComparison titlesBox: middle half of postingsMedianMeanLowest to highestHighest is off the scale; its value is shown at the end

GTM Engineer182 postingsmedian $165K

Growth Engineer57 postingsmedian $165K

Sales or Revenue Operations296 postingsmedian $135K

Software Engineer12,373 postingsmedian $205K

$565K

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What the data says

One per company: 81% of the 241 companies hiring posted exactly one, and the typical one had 19 open jobs in total.
Clay hires the most: the data tool many GTM Engineers use posted 11 GTM Engineer jobs, more than any other company.
Operations work, done with code: 69% ask for coding and 48% for tools like Clay, compared with 23% and 9% of sales and revenue operations postings.
Higher pay: $165K median base salary vs $135K, and 14% more at the same company.

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Source: Timeplot, based on public job postings from the companies we track, spanning top AI labs, AI-adjacent software companies, and startups. Data as of November 7, 2026.

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GTM Engineer is sales ops that writes code