Shopify, the global commerce platform that enables merchants to build and run online stores, employs just over 10,000 people worldwide. Recent staffing data shows the company added slightly more than 800 new employees while seeing roughly 675 departures, yielding moderate net growth. The organization maintains a sizable remote-friendly workforce alongside several North American and international offices.
Engineering is Shopify’s largest discipline with roughly one-third of all employees—about 3,450 people—focused on building and maintaining the platform’s technical foundation. Sales and Support makes up the second-largest group at around 1,740 team members, reflecting the company’s emphasis on merchant success. Marketing and Product functions account for more than 1,580 employees, while Business Management, IT, Finance and Administration, Operations, and HR collectively represent several thousand additional roles. Smaller clusters in Program & Project Management and an “Other” category round out the 19 reported departments, indicating a diversified talent mix across technical, commercial, and operational areas.
Shopify’s workforce is highly distributed, with approximately 7,600 employees classified under “Other,” signaling a significant remote or location-agnostic population. Among named hubs, the largest concentrations are in Toronto (about 870 employees) and Ottawa (about 390 employees), aligning with the company’s Canadian roots. Additional offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Austin, Montreal, and Vancouver each house between 70 and 380 team members, underscoring Shopify’s presence in major technology and commerce centers across North America and Europe.