Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb
Launch Team
$160-180k
+ Equity
More information about location
Provides full stack observability and analysis
Job no longer available
Provides full stack observability and analysis
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
+ 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
- A strong foundation in software engineering with experience working full-stack. You may be more comfortable in React/TypeScript or Go, but you are eager to work across the stack and deepen your skills where needed
- Experience delivering reliable, maintainable features in production environments
- Familiar with observability principles and tooling. You have worked with systems in production, used telemetry to debug issues, and understand how to own the software you build
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and able to handle production incidents when they occur. You view these as opportunities to learn
- A collaborative mindset. You enjoy pairing, giving thoughtful code reviews, and supporting the team in making technical decisions
- A strength in communicating with our cross-functional partners, like product managers and designers. You can adapt your message to the audience
- You are curious and continuously seek to improve yourself, the product, and the team. We love to iterate on our processes and the product we are building. Feedback is fuel for growth
What the job involves
- The Launch team is shaping Honeycomb’s Day 0 to Day 1 experience for our Enterprise customers
- This critical path is where new users discover the value in their data and start building stronger observability habits
- Our mission is to onboard and level up teams by helping them understand and observe their systems more effectively
- We do this by creating intuitive and insightful entry points like Home, Boards, and Service Map
- Our work shapes how teams learn the Honeycomb way, visualize their system behavior, and standardize team-wide observability practices that scale
- We work closely with product, design, and platform teams to ensure these experiences are scalable and deeply aligned with our customers’ needs
- Own full-stack feature development across our React/TypeScript frontend and Go backend, delivering experiences that help Honeycomb users find value in their observability data
- Own the performance of systems like Boards, Service Map, and Home by participating in our on-call rotation and triaging incidents and customer inquiries when necessary
- Assist in shaping the technical direction and roadmap by contributing to architecture decisions, leading projects, and supporting features from discovery through delivery
- Assist the team by pairing, reviewing code, and identifying opportunities to pay down tech debt while raising the bar for how we own and maintain our software in production
- Teach best practices and design patterns by participating in our team’s leveling-up workshops to grow our team’s skillset in building and monitoring our software
- Learn through cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to turn customer needs into product features
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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