Senior Software Engineer, Honeycomb
App Observability Team
CA$251.9-283k
+ Equity
More information about location
Observability platform for engineering teams
Open for applications
Observability platform for engineering teams
201-500 employees
Open for applications
CA$251.9-283k
+ 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 designing, building, and maintaining backend systems. You have substantial expertise building APIs and backend services in Go (or similar languages), with strong opinions about API design, error handling, and developer experience. You've seen many different patterns and have developed your own frameworks for evaluating how to approach new technical challenges
- Frontend proficiency with React and TypeScript. You have professional experience delivering frontend features and contributing to full-stack software through all stages of the development lifecycle, though your primary expertise is in backend systems
- Experience leading complex technical projects. You've planned and delivered projects that span multiple teams or systems, navigating external dependencies and uncertainty. You know how to break down complex work, ship incrementally, and balance technical investment with business goals
- Ownership and autonomy. You proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and own your projects end-to-end — from planning through deployment and ongoing maintenance. You tackle tech debt proactively and can debug the toughest issues through the entire stack
- A track record of making others better. You've mentored engineers, led technical design reviews, and helped raise the quality bar for a team or domain. People come to you for guidance, and you help build leaders around you
- A collaborative and flexible mindset. You're comfortable working cross-functionally, pivoting priorities to address evolving customer or business needs, and maintaining strong teamwork. We work by building small changes and iterating based on customer interaction
- Clear, open communication. We see clear, thoughtful, and regular written and face-to-face communication — including a willingness to give and receive feedback — as a fundamental engineering skill and one of the strongest predictors of engineering impact, not just a nice to have, and we hope you do too
- An interest in observability and production culture. We maintain an on-call rotation and work hard to keep it from becoming a bad experience. You've supported software in production and have opinions about how to do it well. Bonus points if you want to fold that experience into the Honeycomb product itself
- Nice to have: experience with AI-assisted development. You're proficient with AI coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) or are excited to incorporate them into your workflow. We're actively exploring how AI can accelerate our development practices
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer II on the App O11y team, you'll be joining a team focused on delivering the core observability capabilities that power Honeycomb
- Our ownership spans across querying, metrics, anomaly detection, and high-level analysis — the foundational workflows customers use to bring their telemetry to Honeycomb and investigate issues
- Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs. You'll architect and implement APIs and backend services in Go, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and backward compatibility. You'll think proactively about cost, scale, and risk — anticipating technical issues and exploring alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly
- Build and maintain full-stack product features. You'll contribute frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Go) code to build robust product features, maintaining proficiency across the stack. You'll deliver impactful features that add value for our customers, our team, and Honeycomb overall
- Provide technical leadership. You'll define patterns and operational guidelines that raise the bar for the team and beyond. You'll plan, lead, and deliver complex, multi-team projects — including ones with external dependencies — ensuring alignment and mentoring teammates along the way. We rotate tech lead responsibilities with each feature to allow everyone on the team to use and grow these skills
- Collaborate across disciplines. You'll work closely within a product triad model alongside design and product partners, from discovery through delivery, iterating quickly based on user feedback. You'll contribute to the team's technical roadmap and help shape quarterly product roadmaps, tying technical considerations to business outcomes
- Support and own your software in production. You'll participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliable operations and proactively address user pain points. You know when to shift between forward-looking feature work and production needs
- Communicate clearly and multiply your impact. Regular written and verbal communication, collaboration, and feedback are foundational skills you'll use daily. You'll mentor engineers, share knowledge, and delegate to help others grow — your goal is to make everyone around you more effective
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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