Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb
OpenTelemetry
$160-180k
+ 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
$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
- An interest in observability. You’re curious about tooling that helps you understand what your code does in production. You may have some experience with those tools, and have thoughts about how they fit into developer practice
- 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
- Experience being a polyglot. You are fluent in a few popular programming languages, have worked in a multi-language environment before, and have a sense for when to favor consistency across codebases vs. when to use language-specific idioms
- Love for being a generalist. We’re a small team at Honeycomb, so there will be plenty of opportunities to jump around and help out with other areas of our engineering and product efforts as well — the ideal candidate would probably enjoy a bit of variety in their work and not find it too distracting to help out with other projects from time to time
- Some solid professional experience as a software engineer or in a related role, advancing beyond an entry-level position (> 4 years of professional experience)
- Strong sense of teamwork. By working as a member of an effective team our shared objectives are consistently reached, our users benefit from our rapid delivery, we grow together by sharing knowledge, and we ensure that every team member can get the rest and time away they need
What the job involves
- The OpenTelemetry team works in collaboration with the open source community to advance the standard for observability
- You will help us build and improve open source SDKs and tools across a variety of programming languages, work with open standards around tracing and instrumentation, and enable our customers to quickly and easily get their most valuable data into Honeycomb
- You will contribute to a vibrant open source community and work directly with customers to influence changes to our products
- Build open-source libraries and integrations with OpenTelemetry. You will work on new and existing tools that generate telemetry data, including Honeycomb libraries and other open-source projects. You will help ensure the ongoing success of the broader observability ecosystem
- Create a good developer experience. You’ll be working to innovate and improve tooling across the ecosystem to reduce the burden placed on end users. You’ll do well if you are the kind of engineer who enjoys thinking about how to make code and documentation that other engineers are delighted to work with
- Collaborate with community, and peers. You’ll be working with open-source community members, and other Honeycomb R&D members including product, engineering, and design. The best candidate is probably someone who enjoys collaborating to help ensure a stellar experience in our product across a variety of areas
- Scope and deliver projects independently. You’re comfortable breaking down complex problems into achievable steps, surfacing trade-offs, and pulling in teammates when needed. You take ownership end-to-end—from design to production support—reducing toil and ensuring delivering measurable customer and business impact
- Help increase the adoption of OpenTelemetry. You will work with a wide variety of teams to assist them in identifying areas where adopting OpenTelemetry may benefit them. You will increase awareness of the project and its influence in the community through engagement and documentation
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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