Midlevel Backend Engineer, Honeycomb
Storage Team
$165-180k
+ Equity
More information about location
Provides full stack observability and analysis
Be an early applicant
Provides full stack observability and analysis
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$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 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
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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