Rootly
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$15.2M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$12M
Venture round · Aug 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Long since its last round
38 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
28/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 10, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $12M
Jul 8, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $3.2M · businesswire
Jun 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.31%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
40
best: 25 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2023 | $12M | — | darkreading.com |
| Venture round | Jul 2021 | $3.2M | — | businesswire |
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How Rootly hires
Truth index
B 79/100
Median time to fill
286 days
Ghost roles
27%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Rootly scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 27% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 286 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Rootly is an AI-native incident response and on-call management SaaS platform based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2020 by Quentin Rousseau and JJ Tang (graduates of Y Combinator S21), the platform automates end-to-end incident response workflows directly within enterprise collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.
News
Rootly Drops Small PR Rule as Agentic AI Changes Code Review Economics
Incident management platform provider Rootly has published an account of its decision to drop its long-standing small pull request rule, arguing that the practice no longer serves its purpose now that
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What Doom taught us about AI-assisted incident response Rootly
We built Doom Agent Arena, an open-source benchmark where AI agents battle in Doom via MCP. Here's what it taught us about AI-assisted incident response.
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We pay engineers to cut our infra bill Rootly
Up to $25k for finding and shipping cost savings initiatives.
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Stop trying to review AI's code faster: bet on rollback instead Rootly
AI's failure mode has changed. Most incidents aren't code bugs: they're context bugs. And faster review can't catch them. A case for rollback.
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Replay, don't rebuild: adding week-long deferrals to a pipeline that handles millions of alerts Rootly
On extending a high-volume production pipeline instead of building alongside it, and the edge cases that only appear at the intersection of correct decisions
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Re-thinking candidate take-homes in the AI Era: transcripts over code Rootly
When everyone can ship clean code with AI, the transcript of how they got there becomes a key signal.
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How we used CRDTs to build Real-Time Collaborative Retrospectives Rootly
A dive into how we built collaborative software with real-time features, AI assistance, andworkflow automation with Y.js CRDTs).
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Gemini 3 beaks OpenAI's long-standing lead in SRE tasks. Rootly
A shift just happened in SRE AI performance. Gemini 3 Pro didn't just edge out OpenAI's models, it beat them across every SRE task we threw at it. The landscape is changing faster than anyone expected.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Rootly over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Ruby27%
Python20%
Go13%
Frameworks & libraries
Ruby on Rails20%
Sidekiq13%
Stimulus13%
Playwright7%
Databases
PostgreSQL13%
Redis13%
MySQL7%
DynamoDB7%
Cloud & platforms
Figma100%
GitHub100%
AWS33%
Datadog13%
AI & ML
LLM20%
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40 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$105k
Typical range
$70k – $105k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Middle
33.3%
Senior
66.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $70k | $70k |
| Senior | 2 | $105k | $105k |
Highest paying role
Enterprise Account Executive
$105k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
15
1 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
258 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
25% ▼
Leadership
25% ▲
Product
25% ▼
Design
25% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Canada
Sep 2026
New location: Japan
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dropbox to stack
Sep 2026
Added Canva to stack
Sep 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Aug 2026
Added Anthropic to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Toronto
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13 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 46% engineering 8% remote 50-200 est. staff $94k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, AI/ML, DevOps
Jobs
≈ $40k – $91k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
Python
Terraform
New Relic
Datadog
PagerDuty
Git
Opsgenie
Incident Management
GitHub
Cybersecurity
Sumo Logic
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $74k – $149k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Toronto
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Stimulus
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
DevOps
Terraform
AWS
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Slack
Notion
Dropbox
Agile
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Hybrid • Internship • Canada
LLM
Anthropic
DevOps
AWS
Platform Engineering
AIOps
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $59k – $117k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Toronto
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $64k – $123k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Toronto
Go
Ruby
CI/CD
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $69k – $125k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Toronto
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $64k – $123k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Toronto
Go
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
Stimulus
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
DynamoDB
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $76k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Toronto
Python
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LangSmith
LLM
Braintrust
DevOps
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
QA
Playwright
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≈ $79k – $160k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Toronto
Python
Go
JavaScript
Ruby
Rest API
Terraform
GCP
Azure
AWS
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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≈ $81k – $146k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Toronto
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Hybrid Search
DevOps
Incident Management
GitHub
Design
Figma
Canva
Management
Dropbox
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