Better Stack careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Better Stack has raised $28.6M, the figure published on its own careers page as of October 2026. Susa Ventures led an unannounced seed (the firm says it invested in 2019, before the platform's 2021 launch), and the $18.6M Series A announced in July 2022 was led by Creandum, with Carl Fritjofsson joining the board and participation from Susa Ventures, K5 Global, Credo Ventures and Kaya. A further $10M from Kaya was reported in January 2024. Angel investors include Lachy Groom, Aaron Levie (Box), Ryan Petersen (Flexport), Michael Stoppelman (ex-Yelp), Emil Eifrem (Neo4j), Zach Sims (Codecademy), Madhu Muthukumar (Notion) and Tim Soulo (Ahrefs).

Better Stack (betterstack.com) combines the observability tools engineering teams usually stitch together into one platform: log management, uptime monitoring, incident management and on-call, status pages, infrastructure monitoring, eBPF-based OpenTelemetry-native tracing, real user monitoring, error tracking and an agentic AI SRE for root cause analysis. The product is built on ClickHouse and queried with plain SQL instead of a proprietary query language, positioning it as a cheaper, faster alternative to Datadog, New Relic and PagerDuty. As of October 2026 the careers page reports 300,000+ developers using the platform; customers named at the 2022 Series A included Decathlon, Time Magazine, ESET, Accenture, Brave and Plausible.

The company was founded in 2021 in Prague by Juraj Masar (CEO) and Veronika Kolejak (COO), with Tomas Hromada as CTO, and all three still ship code. Its identity is explicitly engineer-led: "We are engineers, making the tools we always wanted", with a team the careers page describes as Y Combinator alumni and ex-Google and ex-Shopify engineers. The team works async-first from North America and Europe or from the Prague office, which comes with daily catered lunch and an in-house bartender.

Juraj Masar, Co-founder and CEO. Founded Better Stack in Prague in 2021 after living "the daily struggles engineers go through" at previous jobs; describes the company as "simply engineers making the tools we always wanted to use". Still hands-on and shipping code as of October 2026.

Veronika Kolejak, Co-founder and COO. Co-founded Better Stack with Masar in 2021. Championed SQL as the platform's querying standard, arguing most engineers know SQL but not Datadog's, New Relic's or CloudWatch's proprietary query languages.

Engineers here are generalists with real ownership: the full-stack posting describes delivering end-to-end features, from backend to frontend, within a single day, working directly with the CTO, CEO and designer. The company wants people who "if given enough time, could build Better Stack on their own", and believes the best engineers are at least 100x more productive because they switch pragmatically between styles of engineering. AI-assisted development is mandatory culture: postings expect fluency with Claude Code, Cursor and opencode, and the engineering page says the codebases are AI-native.

Every role publishes its pay band on the careers page. As of October 2026: Full-stack Engineer $60K to $300K plus equity, Founding Product Engineer $150K to $400K plus equity, Developer Advocate $50K to $200K, Customer Engineer $60K to $120K, with other roles listed too. Each role also offers an opt-in "Hardcore mode": work 1.5x the hours for 2x the compensation (the full-stack band becomes $120K to $600K, founding product engineer $300K to $800K), which the company frames as a sustainable alternative to 996 that you can opt out of later.

Async-first with a trademark-style motto: "No bs meetings". No Zoom calls (Slack huddles and Loom instead), no 60-minute meetings (26-minute 1:1 quick syncs), and an operating style the careers page sums up as "We ship things, we fix things, we make things happen." The team compares itself to a professional sports team: results over effort, no slackers kept around, and great ideas beating seniority.

Published values: do a lot with little, be nice and do the right thing (no "brilliant jerks"), don't ask for permission, reason from first principles, and get things done. Work is remote across North America and Europe or from the cozy Prague office; the company says it is not about how much time you spend working but what you ship, and the calendar includes off-sites and parties (recent photos show Schladming and Iceland trips).

All open roles live directly on https://betterstack.com/careers with pay bands beside each one; there is no external ATS. As of October 2026 the roles are Full-stack Engineer, Founding Product Engineer, Operations Executive, Customer Engineer, Customer Advocate, Developer Advocate and Recruiter, each available Remote (North America and Europe) or in Prague. Applications go through a short Typeform (https://betterstack.com/careers/fullstack-engineer links to betterstack.typeform.com/apply-engineer; non-technical roles use a separate form).

The full-stack posting is explicit about the profile: software as a hobby, shipping end-to-end (styling buttons in the morning, schema changes at noon, deploying in the afternoon), speed and pragmatism, security-consciousness without over-relying on frameworks, and care for UI and UX. Stack experience is explicitly not required ("great software engineers can pick up new stack fast"), but heavy, skilled AI tool use is: "We're not looking for vibe coders." Interview steps beyond the application are not published.