Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Honeycomb
$210.5-236.5k
+ Equity with employee-friendly stock program
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
$210.5-236.5k
+ Equity with employee-friendly stock program
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
- Strong experience in leading cross-team or organizational-level technical initiatives
- Strong experience in AWS and Kubernetes
- Solid Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD skills
- Experience with software engineering (Golang is a plus)
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to manage up, negotiate, influence, and bring stakeholders along
- A balance of technical depth and organizational perspective, with the ability to scale systems and processes
- Familiarity with observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation) and data-driven decision making
- Experience with incident and change management
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a bias for action and experimentation
- Interest in both the technical and human sides of reliability engineering
- A curiosity to learn how people and systems work, and the willingness to make them partners in your initiatives
What the job involves
- Honeycomb’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team works at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and organizational enablement
- We lead technically complex, cross-team projects that improve reliability, scale systems, and make life easier for engineering teams
- We’re trusted across the company to set direction, solve ambiguous problems, and build processes that run smoothly
- Our work spans AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes and Helm, Terraform, and other tools, aligned with the sociotechnical needs of scaling a fast-growing company
- We’re a collaborative, diverse team that values experimentation, data-driven decisions, and maintaining a safe environment for healthy debate and innovation
- Lead technically complex, cross-functional projects to help Honeycomb scale
- Help manage and grow our vendor relationships (like with AWS) - including strategic negotiations - and help others do the same
- Build organizational trust through transparent communication with engineering leadership and stakeholders
- Shape how the SRE team engages with the rest of Honeycomb (program management, embedding, education)
- Drive technical improvements in AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform usage
- Contribute to platform strategy and vision
- Improve and refine processes to ensure smooth operations and reduce friction for engineering teams
- Act and train others as an Incident Commander, and participate in the Platform on-call rotation
- Improve the internal observability of our systems through technical projects and enablement
- Help the organization navigate tradeoffs between reliability and its other goals and priorities
- Optional: act as an external ambassador through blog posts, conference talks, and presentations with support from our DevRel team
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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