We got paged after the customer did. Never again.
Beacon was built out of frustration. Our founders were infrastructure engineers at high-growth startups who kept experiencing the same nightmare: finding out about outages from support tickets, not monitors. We built the tool we wished existed.
Our story
In 2021, Jordan and Sam were running infrastructure at a Series B fintech. Their monitoring setup was a patchwork of scripts, cron jobs, and a legacy SaaS product that hadn’t been meaningfully updated since 2016. One Friday afternoon, their payments API went down for 23 minutes. They found out because a customer emailed.
They evaluated every uptime monitoring tool on the market. Most were either too simple (ping a URL, send an email) or too expensive and complex for a lean engineering team. None of them solved the real problem: knowing immediately, with confidence, from multiple locations, with the right people paged.
Beacon launched in 2022. Today, it monitors over 2 million endpoints for 8,000+ engineering teams ranging from solo founders to infrastructure leads at Series C startups.
We’re a fully remote team of 18 people across 7 countries. We’re backed by Sequoia and YC.
What we believe
The principles that guide how we build Beacon.
Speed over everything
Every second an outage goes undetected is a second your users are frustrated. We obsess over detection latency so you don't have to.
Global by default
Regional outages are real. Multi-location checking isn't a "Pro" feature — it's the baseline. Every plan checks from multiple locations.
Calm alerting
Alert fatigue is an epidemic. Beacon is designed to page you only when something actually needs your attention — and to stop when it's resolved.
The team
Engineers building for engineers.
Jordan Wells
CEO & Co-founder
Former SRE at Stripe. Built and sold two developer tools startups. Obsessed with reliability engineering and P99 latency.
Sam Nakamura
CTO & Co-founder
Ex-infrastructure lead at Cloudflare. Designed global monitoring infrastructure that processes 50M+ checks per day.
Anika Osei
Head of Product
Previously product manager at PagerDuty. Passionate about turning complex DevOps workflows into simple, delightful UX.
Dmitri Volkov
Head of Engineering
Backend architect with a background in distributed systems. Maintainer of several open-source observability libraries.
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