Real-time network intelligence platform for cloud and data-center operations
Kentik operates a network observability platform built on React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Redis—a stack optimized for high-volume telemetry ingestion and real-time correlation. The company is sales-driven (12 active sales roles against 10 engineering) and actively hiring senior-level talent across France, US, and Japan, with notable focus on a Customer Success Director role—signaling scale-up through service expansion beyond product engineering.
Notable leadership hires: Customer Success Director
Kentik provides network intelligence software for infrastructure and operations teams managing applications across data centers, cloud, and internet edge. The platform ingests and correlates NetFlow, cloud, device, and synthetic monitoring data to surface network-wide patterns and anomalies. The company counts large-scale infrastructure operators among its user base and operates a go-to-market model combining direct sales with developer-first tooling. With 201–500 employees based in San Francisco since 2014, Kentik has built a technical founding culture (hiring mix skews engineering and product) while ramping sales infrastructure to drive growth in the service-provider market segment.
Kentik's platform is built on React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Redis, and Go. The stack includes Rust and Python for performance-critical components, HashiCorp Nomad for orchestration, and Envoy as a networking layer.
Kentik unifies NetFlow, cloud metrics, device data, and synthetic monitoring to provide real-time network visibility across data centers, cloud environments, and internet infrastructure. The platform detects DDoS events, analyzes container and cloud networking, and surfaces faults across distributed systems.
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