Engineering Manager, Honeycomb
Explore Team
$195-235k
Salary applicable to US applicants only, for Canadian applicants the range is CAD $256,716 - $322,784. + Equity for all locations
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Provides full stack observability and analysis
Job no longer available
Provides full stack observability and analysis
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$195-235k
Salary applicable to US applicants only, for Canadian applicants the range is CAD $256,716 - $322,784. + Equity for all locations
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give all software engineering teams the observability they need to eliminate toil and delight their users.
Role
Who you are
- You have some experience leading a high-performing team of engineers, including managing and shipping cross-functional or multi-team projects
- You set people up to ship iteratively and are excited to support and grow empowered teams through a blend of psychological safety and positive accountability
- You live and breathe collaboration with product and design to understand the larger business context and frame projects and prioritization around impact to the business and users
- You structure work around tight feedback loops with customers
- A strong candidate for this role would be familiar with triad-based collaboration and design thinking
- Bonus points if you are familiar with the Product Management philosophies of people like Marty Cagan and Teresa Torres
- You have demonstrated experience with balancing priorities that complement, or conflict, with one another. This team has so much high impact work in front of it
- A strong candidate understands different types of needs and weaves them into a cohesive strategy that balances short and long term impact with stability and system health
- You understand the value of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team and bring that lens to your work as a leader in hiring, team culture, and beyond
- We are trying to raise the standards for developer tools, and we know that a diverse, inclusive, equitable team will help us build better products for a larger swath of the industry
- You’re practiced at helping your team grow and build their career paths
- In this role, you’ll be in close conversation with your team on their career development and growth plans, helping them shape their career paths as well as understand how their work fits into the big picture of Honeycomb’s business goals
- You are comfortable with the pace and trade offs of a growth stage startup (meaning: know how to take care of yourself and your team, get your work done without working around the clock, prioritize ruthlessly, be able to tolerate a little uncertainty and sometimes wear different hats)
What the job involves
- Lead the team that gives people deep insight into their systems. This is where people answer deeply complicated questions about how their systems work so they can address them once and for all
- The Explore team is a full stack product engineering team at Honeycomb that’s responsible for critical user flows such as the primary query builder user interface along with the family of results generated with each query e.g. data visualizations, Bubble Up, traces page, and relevant APIs
- The team works closely with the team that owns our custom data store and query engine to enable deep data analysis and exploration across all telemetry types
- We are open to Manager and Senior Manager leveling for this role
- Strategic thinking that moves mountains
- Collaborate with your design and product peers to develop an impactful team strategy grounded in data and customer feedback
- Frame projects and prioritization around impact to the business and value for the users
- Lead with a sense of urgency and uphold high standards and expectations for your team by modeling them yourself
- Healthy and Inclusive team builder
- Prioritize building a respectful, high-achieving, inclusive culture on the team
- Build systems that allow the team of 5-8 full stack engineers to be greater than the sum of their parts
- Coach and mentor engineers to own and achieve business impact as well as grow their technical skills
- Model and maintain a high functioning team culture of mutual respect that promotes open dialogue
- Courageous communicator and motivator
- Empower people to be effective by explaining beneficial impact as well as delivering timely feedback
- Know how to pick the right communication tool for the problem at hand (chat, video, email, etc.)
- Value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and understand how good communication practices intersect with efforts to build a diverse and inclusive culture
- Develops self and others
- Develop thoughtful and ambitious growth plans for each engineer that align with where they want to go in their career
- Support midlevel engineers transition into senior and staff roles
- Think like an owner
- Gain a clear understanding of company priorities, and communicate those to the team, helping them prioritize and balance investments
- Foster a belief in your team that we all come to the table with positive intent towards Honeycomb’s overall success
- Cultivate new, relevant ideas by ensuring the team has enough context and agency to know where it’s worth being creative
Our take
Traditional processes of debugging apps and IT services are becoming obsolete due to the mass adoption of cloud-based tools. However, whilst cloud-based development presents a modern and unified solution to application building, frameworks for troubleshooting such services are not currently something many businesses are prepared for.
Honeycomb provides troubleshooting tools that allow cloud-based software developers to observe code on API tools, live applications, and microservices. The troubleshooting dashboard is designed to be highly visual and user-friendly, thus allowing developers to diagnose cloud-based problems without having a deep understanding of computer science.
The company is building on its 2022 momentum after achieving another consecutive year of 2x revenue growth, driving 160% net revenue retention for its 600+ customers around the globe. Series D awarded in 2023 will be channelled into geographical expansion and supporting its products. Honeycomb’s approach is unique as it is facilitating the harmonious deployment of cloud-based debugging tools in a landscape where such services are essential yet difficult to understand.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
76% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2023
$50m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $146.9m
Company benefits
- 100% covered medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability, and more
- Unlimited PTO, synchronous company break, paid sabbatical, and expressed minimum for time to recharge
- 401K retirement plans and fully paid life insurance
- Up to 16 weeks paid leave regardless of path to parenthood; flexible hours for returning parents and caregivers
- $10K to cover gaps in insurance, in support of adoption, surrogacy, preservation, and family-planning costs
- $600 per year to spend on the perks you care for most
- A stake in our success
- Generous new hire equity, and refresh grants
- Annual $1,500 development stipend; funding for cognitive coaching; and a focus on career pathing
- $500 new hire home setup stipend and $200/mo for wifi, phone and co-working
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Charity Majors
(CTO)Former Product Engineering Manager at Facebook and Infrastructure Tech Lead at Parse.
Christine Yen
(CEO)Former Engineer at Parse and IOS contractor at Ridejoy. Co-founder of Venuetastic. BSc in Computer Science from MIT.
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