Midlevel Backend Engineer, Honeycomb
Storage Team
$165-180k
+ Equity
More information about location
Observability platform for engineering teams
Job no longer available
Observability platform for engineering teams
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$165-180k
+ 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
- You work well with other teams
- As a product-focused team in the platform engineering org, Storage enables other engineering teams to deliver new and exciting features to our customers
- You’ll have the opportunity to explore ways we can support these efforts as well as consider ways to unlock additional functionality for the company
- You care deeply about software quality and testing
- A strong candidate for this role would be interested in testing and have experience finding the best ways to keep a high level of quality without spending an ever-growing amount of time on maintaining tests
- They would also be a practiced code reviewer: able to give kind, thoughtful feedback to other engineers on pull requests to the codebase
- You value 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
What the job involves
- This role will let you explore this bespoke architecture and contribute to improving its efficiency, reliability and performance
- You’ll help us ensure that the product remains performant for all of our customers, irrespective of their size and complexity
- You’ll be a critical part in the operational management, performance and reliability of our distributed columnar datastore
- This includes optimization as well as experimentation with new approaches to meeting the needs of our largest customers who have loads of data
- Ownership is built through collaborating to define our team’s KPIs, product SLOs, and alerts
- Virtual Onsite, where you'll meet more of the team, including members of the product triad
- Every engineer on the team participates in an on-call rotation to support issues that our customers encounter (reactive), to improve sticking points that our customers may face (proactive), and to eliminate sources of engineering toil
- The Storage team is a highly collaborative, diverse, dedicated and enthusiastic group of individuals working towards a common goal
- You’ll have plenty of opportunity to partner with and drive high impact initiatives that enable our customers to do their best work
- We lean into a culture of experimentation and data-backed development to test out our hypotheses
Application process
- Recruiter Screen
- 2. Hiring Manager Screen
- 3. Technical Take Home exercise, as well as a 30 minute call with the team to talk through your work and decision-making process
- 4. Virtual Onsite, where you'll meet more of the team, including members of the product triad
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 something all 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, allowing developers to diagnose cloud-based problems without having a deep understanding of computer science.
The company is building momentum after impressive revenue growth and a robust amount of funding. This is being channelled into geographical expansion and the development of its offerings. In 2025, Honeycomb signed a three-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS and launched several new product advancements.
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 & Co-founder)Former Product Engineering Manager at Facebook and Infrastructure Tech Lead at Parse.
Christine Yen
(CEO & Co-founder)Former Engineer at Parse and IOS contractor at Ridejoy. Co-founder of Venuetastic. BSc in Computer Science from MIT.
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