Staff Software Engineer, Honeycomb
Signals Team
$220-235k
Canada salary range is $302,181 - $322,784 CAD. Offers equity.
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Provides full stack observability and analysis
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Provides full stack observability and analysis
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-235k
Canada salary range is $302,181 - $322,784 CAD. Offers equity.
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
- Deep experience in backend application development with experience in frontend development. You have supported high throughput systems in the past and are familiar with the challenges common with browser applications and have a sense of how to balance risks and engineering efforts and are open to learning the specific languages, skills, and technologies we use by working here
- Experience leading team through experiment-first product delivery cycles. You are comfortable iterating on features to deliver value over time
- Experience leading teams with software in production. You have experience focused on technical leadership, defining patterns, and operational guidelines for your team or domain(s)
- A strong sense of teamwork. You have experience working with a cross-functional team. Our team follows a product triad model composed of design, product, and engineering. You will collaborate with these partners, beginning with problem discovery through solution design and delivery. We work through building small changes/experiments and then iterate based on customer interaction
- A flexible mindset. The urgency of product delivery in a scaling business environment sometimes asks us to compromise. We need to ensure that important work gets prioritized while also ensuring that we continually address technical debt. You will consider each situation and help the team to find the right balance
- Clear, open communication. We see clear, thoughtful, and regular written & face-to-face communication (including a willingness to give & receive feedback) as a fundamental engineering skill and one of the strongest predictors of future engineering impact, not just a nice to have, and we hope you do too
- An interest in observability and lessons from your experience supporting production software. We maintain an on-call rotation and work hard to keep that from becoming a bad experience (read about how we track on-call health and count alerts). If you have opinions about how to maintain that, we would like to hear them. If you have struggled with supporting software in production, then we want to fold that experience into the Honeycomb product, too
What the job involves
- As a Product Engineer on this team, you’ll be joining a growing product engineering team, helping us to build a range of features pivotal to the Honeycomb experience, like core concepts used to organize data, as well as features like derived columns, SLOs and Triggers
- Make meaningful decisions that guide technical and product roadmap
- Your questions, opinions and insight will inform product roadmap
- We are a growth-focused team invested in building exciting new functionality for our customers
- You’ll also help others set technical roadmap and navigate the landscape of new technologies, guiding technology choice, and adoption of best practices
- Lead and contribute to the delivery of quality software
- You will write code across the full application stack, primarily on the backend in Golang
- You will also do some work in React and TypeScript
- You’ll deliver impactful code that is well-tested to maintain a high level of code quality without spending an ever-growing amount of time maintaining those tests
- You will also plan and lead these complex, multi-team, or system, long-term projects, including ones with external dependencies while collaborating with product and design
- Support other engineers within the team and beyond
- As a technical leader, you’ll have opportunities to mentor other engineers as they build their skills
- You’ll pair, review code, and communicate daily with your team, give and receive thoughtful feedback on Pull Requests as you work in our shared code repositories, and act as a multiplier who shares knowledge and delegates to help others grow
- You’ll influence company goals and strategy, potentially identifying new business growth opportunities
- You’ll also work to define and model the team’s engineering brand, process, and patterns
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 values
- Fast And Close To Right Is Better Than Perfect - Take pride in your craft and ship relentlessly. Be like our storage engine: 99% right in milliseconds is better than 100% right in an hour. Code in production is worth two in canary
- We Hire Adults - Pay attention to your mind and body so you can give and get help. All of us wobble, and being transparent about that means we can support each other. Participate fully in collaboration, coaching and management. If any group of us were together in a car on a long road trip, there would be no need for a dividing line in the back seat to keep people from hitting each other
- Everything Is An Experiment - Don’t get attached to specific outcomes, as they can prevent you from moving forward. Construct your experiments with purpose, evaluate them with honesty, share your results, and iterate. Failure is a constant, it’s what we learn that matters
- Feedback Is A Gift - Give feedback freely, give gently, give timely, but give. Listen first, listen intently, and celebrate each other’s growth. We are a high-trust and high-transparency team, and this requires us all to dig deep. Discomfort is temporary. We polish each other like diamonds
- Act With Autonomy And Ownership - Come curious. Focus on impact over output. Be generous with your ideas and use your judgment. Optimize for our collective success, not individual glory. Kill your darlings. Be bold, shake it up, and don’t assume the way things are was on purpose. Do it with style
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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