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Senior Software Engineer I - Frontend Observability
Remote - Canada
What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
How We Work
We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote
Little more about the team:
We build the Honeycomb for Frontend Observability (HFO) product, bringing the power of observability beyond backend systems. We leverage OpenTelemetry and have built SDKs for web, Android, Swift, and soon React Native. Our team also delivers UIs that help frontend developers surface familiar insights like Core Web Vitals. We’ve defined core mobile vitals to help all client-side developers detect and act on performance signals in a consistent, repeatable way.
When you join this team you’ll be joining a fun group of extremely talented engineers. You will help drive roadmap work like greenfield UI components, instrumentation for web and mobile platforms, and end-to-end error management from ingestion through UI.
Check out how our team thinks about browser performance and observability in this space.
What you’ll do in the role:
- Contribute to a greenfield UI project including a new visualization for session data
- Build and maintain instrumentation libraries for web and mobile (Javascript, Android, Swift, React Native)
- Write code across the full application stack, primarily in React, TypeScript, and Golang
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry instrumentation for web and mobile
- Pair, review code, and support teammates through mentoring and feedback
- Operate in a fast-moving team that balances delivery with long-term technical quality
- Participate in OSS discussions and working groups over time
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Deep experience in frontend development with modern web frameworks (examples: React, Next.js)
- Comfort with writing quality code and curiosity about writing instrumentation
- A flexible growth mindset — you know when to polish and when to experiment
- Clear, open communication — we value feedback as a core engineering skill
- A strong sense of teamwork and experience working in cross-functional teams
- Interest in contributing to OpenTelemetry
- Bonus: Experience in Golang, Flutter, open source contributions, mobile development
Base Salary based on level of experience
$218,900 - $245,900 CAD
What you'll get when you join the Hive:
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
- Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
- A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Annual development allowance
- And much more...
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
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For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.
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