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PagerDuty
Company blog · pagerduty.com/blog · on HN as ultrasaurussystemsculture
PagerDuty is the company blog at pagerduty.com, writing about systems and culture. Since 2009, 108 different Hacker News readers have linked it 247 times, most often “Improving PagerDuty’s Operational Resilience to Achieve Our Long Term Vision”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link pagerduty.com for job listings in the 'Who is hiring' threads. Other links point to its incident-management resources, reliability page, and an Elixir engineering blog post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Turn incidents into intelligence. PagerDuty's AI-first Operations Platform helps you automate, resolve, and prevent critical issues — from detection to resolution.
Most-linked posts?
- Improving PagerDuty’s Operational Resilience to Achieve Our Long Term Vision6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-01-24
- Elixir at PagerDuty5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-06-14
- /careers/5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-05-02
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-08-09
- /company/work-with-us/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-07-31
- The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-05-08
- /3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2009-08-11
- /jobs/3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-02-01
- 3x in 3 Years: Scaling an Engineering Organization3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-07-27
- The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-22
What Hacker News says?
Re question #2, Amazon uses UltraDNS as a backup and seemed to be relatively unaffected by today's attack. Re question #1, check out PagerDuty's reliability page here: https://www.pagerduty.com/features/always-on-reliability/ Namely "Uninterrupted Service at Scale - Our service is distributed across multiple data centers and hosting providers, so that if one goes down, we stay available." It seems fair to expect the…
Comment linking /features/always-on-reliability/
on “DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS”Submitted Elixir at PagerDuty as a story · 339 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | Multiple Roles | San Francisco or Toronto | Full Time, Remote https://www.pagerduty.com/careers PagerDuty is growing like crazy and we need great engineers to help us build what Incident Management should look like. Every company is becoming more dependent on software, and with that, they are becoming more dependent on the people they need to run their software. We aim to help people build great software…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Our Approach to Employee Security Training as a story · 309 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco, Toronto | Onsite, Remote PagerDuty is reliable Digital Operations Management for over 9200+ organizations. We are helping Engineers and other professionals resolve problems with their IT systems as quickly as possible. We're backed by some of the Valley’s best investors, including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures and Harrison M…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K37000007gwkxEAA
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure as a story · 292 points
HN discussionPagerDuty - https://pagerduty.com/jobs - San Francisco, Toronto, Some Remote Positions We are hiring up and down the entire stack. Backend, Frontend, Ops, Mobile, Security, Data... you name it, we are hiring for it. We work on problems that do not have textbook solutions. Our traffic spikes involve 5x load in under 10 minutes. Our UX has to work for someone at 3am. Our availability requirements are higher than our c…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet as a story · 261 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | Multiple Roles - San Francisco, Toronto, Seattle, Remote | Full Time We are hiring across the entire stack and are building a product that makes engineers lives easier. We have thousands of delighted customers and have some awesome technical challenges ahead of us as we scale our successful business. We're hiring for all kinds of roles for backend/frontend/infrastructure/security. If you want to work on…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Open-Sourcing Our Incident Response Documentation as a story · 182 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco, Toronto, Remote | PagerDuty is reliable Digital Operations Management for over 9,200+ organizations. We are helping Engineers and other professionals resolve problems with their IT systems as quickly as possible. We're backed by some of the Valley’s best investors, including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures and Harrison Metal.…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K37000005ugTnEAI
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Important Security Announcement from PagerDuty as a story · 76 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco | Toronto | Remote PagerDuty is reliable Digital Operations Management for over 10,000 organizations. We are helping Engineers and other professionals resolve problems with their IT systems as quickly as possible. We're backed by some of the Valley’s best investors, including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal.…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K37000008hoH8EAI
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted PagerDuty (YC S10) now at $100M in ARR as a story · 35 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco | Toronto | Remote PagerDuty is reliable Digital Operations Management for over 10,000 organizations. We are helping Engineers and other professionals resolve problems with their IT systems as quickly as possible. We're backed by some of the Valley’s best investors, including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal.…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K37000008hoH8EAI
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted API Monitoring: Up Is Not Enough (2014) as a story · 33 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco | Toronto | Remote PagerDuty is the leading digital operations management platform for organizations. Over 10,000 enterprises and small to mid-size organizations globally trust PagerDuty to improve digital operations, drive revenue, mitigate threats, protect assets, and delight customers. We were included in the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the second year in a row, Inc. 500 and Fo…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K37000008ajy6EAA
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Why VPs Should Care About Engineer Burnout as a story · 25 points
HN discussionPagerDuty - San Francisco and Toronto, ONSITE If you're looking for a start up that's growing quickly by solving a real problem, we're making the process of fixing technology problems better. PagerDuty is used by thousands of customers globally, from startups like Github, Instagram, Airbnb, Box, and Rackspace, to Fortune 500 companies like HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Nike. We've got ambitious plans to grow and are see…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)”Submitted PagerDuty [YC S10] hiring an operations engineer as a story · 24 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | Senior Software Engineer, Analytics | Toronto | ONSITE PagerDuty is how software services manage their resiliency. From paging the right person when there's an outage, to orchestrating a response, to conducting a postmortem, to obtaining data-driven insights that improve processes and performance. Come work on my team in Toronto. Great culture. Great Benefits. A real company with serious revenues. Discip…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K370000073FAHEA2
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted PagerDuty Guarantees Uptime with Downtime Insurance as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHere are a few that we use. Airbrake ( http://airbrake.io/ ) - Exception logging. Campfire ( http://campfirenow.com/ ) - Chat. Librato ( https://metrics.librato.com/ ) - Hosted graphing. Mixpanel ( http://mixpanel.com/ ) - Analytics, people tracking. Pagerduty ( http://www.pagerduty.com/ ) - Monitoring alerts. Sendgrid ( http://sendgrid.com/ ) - Sending emails. Sprintly ( https://sprint.ly/ ) - Project management. T…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted Cassandra Load Disparities with WAN-Based Quorum Reads as a story · 10 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco | Toronto | Atlanta PagerDuty is the leading digital operations management platform for organizations. Over 10,000 enterprises and small to mid-size organizations globally trust PagerDuty to improve digital operations, drive revenue, mitigate threats, protect assets, and delight customers. We were included in the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the second year in a row, Inc. 500 and F…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K37000008p93CEAQ
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Know When to Go for Pokémon Go as a story · 9 points
HN discussionPagerDuty | San Francisco | Toronto | Remote PagerDuty is the leading digital operations management platform for organizations. Over 10,000 enterprises and small to mid-size organizations globally trust PagerDuty to improve digital operations, drive revenue, mitigate threats, protect assets, and delight customers. We were included in the 2017 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the second year in a row, Inc. 500 and Fo…
Comment linking /careers/jobs/?jobid=a0K3700000CdFnrEAF
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Submitted PagerDuty Kafka Outages as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI agree, we do the whiteboarding but what I really care about is how well you can take a problem and make a solution (that's a big part of my application process http://www.pagerduty.com/jobs/engineering/growth-and-interna... )
Comment linking /jobs/engineering/growth-and-internal-tools-developer/
on “The best programmers are the quickest to Google”Submitted Dismantling Knowledge Silos as a story · 7 points
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