Why Work Here: JJ Tang, Rootly

Our guest today is JJ Tang, Co-Founder and CEO of Rootly. Rootly provides AI-powered on-call and incident response, delivering a beautiful, modern, and Slack-native incident management experience-from your first alert to retrospective. Trusted by 100s of leading companies, including NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Grammarly, Elastic, Tripadvisor, and Figma, Rootly helps teams resolve incidents quickly and efficiently.
Key Insights:
Rootly has carved out a unique niche in incident response by focusing on collaboration and automation, rather than just alerting engineers.
The company has built a strong culture of transparency, ownership, and customer-centric development, empowering employees to engage directly with top enterprise clients.
Rootly prioritizes hiring high-performing, self-motivated individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment.
Why Work Here is a series in which Amit Matani, CEO of Wellfound, has honest, behind-the-scenes conversations with founders, executives, and employees about why their companies are worth joining.