incident.io

All-in-One Incident Management — On-Call, Response & Status Pages

The consensus on incident.io: Choose incident.io if you want a genuinely strong culture with excellent benefits and career growth — but expect London-centric work and rapid-scaling growing pains.

2021
Founded
London, UK
Headquarters
~140
Employees
~$400M
Valuation (Series B, 2025)
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Culture Overview

What it's really like to work at incident.io

Founded in 2021, incident.io is an all-in-one incident management platform that has built a genuinely strong engineering culture. With a dedicated culture manager role, the company practices its values rather than just stating them. The team emphasizes psychological safety, fast shipping, and continuous learning in a flat, engineering-driven environment where transparency is the default.

Glassdoor Ratings

incident.io Glassdoor Ratings & Employee Reviews

4.5
Overall Glassdoor Score
Based on 33 reviews
Culture & Values 4.3
Compensation & Benefits 4.7
Senior Management 4.5
Career Opportunities 4.4
Work-Life Balance 4.1
Overall Rating 4.5
88% Recommend to a Friend
88% CEO Approval (Stephen Whitworth)
Employee Review Themes

Working at incident.io: Pros & Cons

What employees love

  • Strong culture with a dedicated culture manager role — values are practiced, not just stated
  • Excellent compensation and benefits rated 4.7/5 with strong career growth (4.4/5)
  • 88% recommend to a friend — the most statistically reliable score here (33 reviews)
  • Engineering-driven product company with genuine psychological safety
  • Recent $62M Series B at ~$400M valuation — strong growth with funding runway

What could be better

  • London-centric with limited remote options for some roles
  • Rapid scaling can create instability — some report organizational growing pains
  • Growing team means processes are still maturing and roles may shift
  • Competitive incident management space (PagerDuty, Opsgenie, FireHydrant)
Engineering Culture

How the engineering team works

Tech Stack

Go TypeScript React PostgreSQL Terraform AWS

Open Source & Research

Maintains open-source projects including catalog-importer. Active in the incident management community. Regular conference talks and thought leadership.

Engineering Blog

Deep technical blog covering incident management, on-call practices, and engineering culture. Read the blog →

Team Structure

London-based with growing remote presence. Product-focused engineering teams with high ownership. Dedicated culture manager ensures values are lived. Strong emphasis on psychological safety.

Open Positions

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... open positions.

Community Sentiment

What the community says about incident.io

Mixed Sentiment 5 mentions from Hacker News & Reddit · Updated 2026-04-10
“Always makes me laugh when people pick company names that are domains and spend their life fighting incorrect capitalisation.I work at incident.io it's a daily struggle.”
Hacker News lawrjone · 2025-04-10 View thread →
“I'm one of the engineers at incident.io, so thanks for the mention! But yes, when we first started the majority of our customers bought us for incident management and used PagerDuty as their on-call provider (phones them, receives the alerts, hands-off to us when an...”
Hacker News lawrjone · 2025-05-17 View thread →
“But you still have to carry two phones, or using work phone during personal time (as part of on-call).How is this better than just having PagerDuty/Incident.io/whatever and receiving pings there?”
Hacker News elAhmo · 2025-09-11 View thread →
“Biased as I work for them but I think https://incident.io/blog/engineering is definitely worth adding.”
Hacker News shelika · 2025-08-10 View thread →

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