Why We Built LogKit
We're a team of engineers who spent too many nights debugging chaos. We built LogKit to fix it.
It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday. We were running a critical migration for a fintech client. The server load spiked. The metrics dashboard looked fine. But the logs? A wall of unstructured JSON that didn't help us find the issue. We spent three hours grepping strings, guessing field names, and praying that the heap dump would tell us something the logs didn't.
That was the moment we decided to stop fighting fire with hacks. We knew there had to be a better way to see inside our applications.
We founded LogKit with a simple premise: logging shouldn't be a chore, and your observability data shouldn't be a mess. We built the SDK first—the tool we wish we had on that Tuesday morning. Then we built the platform to make that data actually useful.
Make every log line count.
We don't believe in telemetry for the sake of it. We believe in data that gets you to the root cause in seconds.
Precision
We enforce typed schemas at the compiler level. No "any" types, no implicit fields. Every log event is exactly what you expect it to be.
Honesty
We don't do telemetry tricks. We don't hide latency. We give you the raw data so you can make your own decisions, not ours.
Simplicity
One import. Zero configuration. Just call a function and get structured JSON. We remove the friction so you can ship code.
Ownership
You own your data. We don't sell it. We don't lock you in. If you want to export to S3 or Firehose, you can.
Engineers solving hard problems.
We come from the best engineering teams in the world, but we built LogKit to be different.
Sarah Chen
CEO & Co-Founder
Former Site Reliability Engineer at Stripe. Obsessed with distributed systems and coffee.
David Okonjo
CTO & Co-Founder
Wrote the first version of the Go runtime. Believes in zero-allocation logging.
Elena Rostova
VP of Product
Ex-Google PM. She knows what developers actually need, not what they say they need.
Marcus Thorne
Lead Backend Engineer
Built high-throughput pipelines at Uber. Handles the LogKit ingestion engine.
Jessica Wu
DevRel Engineer
Maintains the SDK docs and writes tutorials. She's the voice of the community.
Priya Patel
Senior Frontend Engineer
Crafts the LogKit dashboard. She makes complex data look beautiful.
Alex Vargas
Security Engineer
Ensures SOC 2 compliance. He keeps our data safe and our RBAC tight.
Tom Baker
Customer Success
Helps teams onboard and get value out of LogKit fast. He's the bridge between product and users.
We're backed by Y Combinator and a group of technical operators from Stripe, Datadog, and Vercel.
Build the future of observability.
We're looking for engineers who care about precision. Open roles are listed below.