Greenhouse jobs are openings that an employer publishes on its own Greenhouse board, a careers page run by the hiring software Greenhouse. You find them by going to the company’s board, either through the Careers link on its website or at an address that starts with boards.greenhouse.io or job-boards.greenhouse.io. You apply on the same page.
Greenhouse is an applicant tracking system, or ATS: the software a company uses to post openings and collect applications. This post explains how to recognise a Greenhouse board, how to search it, what the fields on a posting mean, and where the surprises are. It also says plainly what Zorlya does with Greenhouse today.
How do I recognise a Greenhouse board?
Look at the address of the careers page or of the Apply button. Two patterns are common: boards.greenhouse.io/company-name and job-boards.greenhouse.io/company-name. An individual posting adds a number after “jobs”, such as job-boards.greenhouse.io/company-name/jobs/1234567. In the recorded sample our reader was tested against, a posting address has exactly that shape.
Some employers show the board inside their own site, so the address bar may never say greenhouse. In that case, open the page source or the Apply link and look for the word greenhouse in the address it goes to. Companies also use a custom domain, so the absence of the name proves nothing. Treat the patterns above as the common cases, not a complete list.
How do I search Greenhouse jobs at one company?
Start on the company’s own board and use what it offers. A board usually lists every open role, and many boards let you narrow by department or office, though which filters appear is the employer’s choice.
- Open the company’s Careers page and follow the link to its job list.
- Filter by department or location if the board offers it.
- Open each posting that fits and read the whole text, not the title alone.
- Copy the link of any posting you want to keep. Postings come down when they are filled.
- Check the company’s board again on a schedule you choose, since a board shows only what is open now.
There is one board per employer. To our knowledge Greenhouse does not give job seekers a single search across all of its customers that you can rely on, so finding Greenhouse jobs means going company by company, or using a tool that reads many boards. Lists of boards are built employer by employer, which is why some employers are missing from every job board.
What does a Greenhouse posting contain?
The public feed of a Greenhouse board, the machine-readable version of the page, carries a small set of fields. In the sample our reader was built against, each posting had:
- a title, and a location name such as “Remote, France”
- the full text of the ad as formatted HTML
- a requisition ID, the employer’s internal reference for the role
- first published and updated timestamps
- optional metadata fields the employer chose to add, such as a role type
- an application deadline field, which was empty in the sample
The feed does not carry salary as a field. Pay, when an employer states it, sits inside the text of the ad or in a metadata field the employer added. See salary on a posting.
Which date should I trust?
Treat the first published date as the better of the two, and treat both with care. The updated timestamp changes when an employer edits a posting, so an old role can look new. A role can also be republished with a fresh date. Why a job’s posted date is unreliable explains the pattern, and three dates on a job separates posted, deadline and closed.
How does a Greenhouse application work?
You apply on the posting page with a form. The usual fields are your name, contact details, a resume upload and sometimes a cover letter upload, plus questions the employer added. Some forms ask for work authorisation, location or answers to short questions. Which fields are required is each employer’s decision, so read the whole form before you start.
Applying does not need an account on Greenhouse itself in the typical case, though we cannot promise that for every employer. After you submit, you normally get a confirmation email. Keep it, and keep the text of the posting, because it may be gone when you want to prepare for an interview. Track applications so follow-ups happen covers a simple way to do this.
A plain, single-column resume in a standard file type is the safest choice for any ATS. What an applicant tracking system does with your resume explains why, and what is and is not known.
Which quirks should I watch for?
- Evergreen postings. Some boards keep a general application open all the time. It is not a live opening, and a reply is unlikely to be quick.
- Several postings for one role. The same job can be listed once per location. Read each, since requirements can differ by country.
- Location names are written by the employer. “Remote, France” and “Remote” are different promises. Read the ad for the country rules (remote jobs and your country).
- The same role elsewhere. A job on a Greenhouse board is often copied to other boards. Apply on the original.
Questions people ask
Do I need a Greenhouse account to apply?
Usually not for the application itself, in our understanding, but a given employer may set things up differently. The Apply page will tell you before you submit anything.
Is a Greenhouse job posting free to read?
Yes. Boards are public pages that anyone can open without signing in. Applying is a separate step.
Why can I not find a company’s Greenhouse board?
The company may use a different system, or may show its board inside its own site. Check the Careers link and the Apply button address.
Can I get alerts for new Greenhouse jobs?
That depends on the board and on the tools you use. Some employers offer an email alert on their own page. A job-tracking tool can also watch a source for you, if it reads that source.
What we know and what we do not
Zorlya has a Greenhouse reader built. On 25 October 2026 the reader held no jobs on the live site, because its runs failed, and a fix for those runs went into the code that day. Until we confirm that the fix works, do not count on Greenhouse openings in a Zorlya feed. Zorlya does read Lever and Workable, and many public boards. If you find a Greenhouse posting yourself, the Add a job button saves it to your account (add a job from any site). We have not described every Greenhouse feature, and employers can change their boards at any time.