Senior Software Engineer II - Scale

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. 

 

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.

 

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

Scale is a newly established team at Honeycomb which owns the unique and challenging aspects of building horizontal capabilities for a SaaS application in the enterprise space. This team considers the developer experience at scale — what’s important to the individual, to the team, to teams of teams — wrestling with problems like maintaining a democratization of observability data while also providing access controls modern enterprises require and helping organizations understand their usage and consumption patterns so they can better run their businesses.

 

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer II on this team, you’ll join a growing engineering organization building critical features that help enterprise customers effectively manage complex organizational structures and resources at scale. We recently released Tags to improve resource organization and discoverability and are now working on introducing a Read-Only Role to further enhance the experience of our enterprise users.

What You’ll Do in the Role:

• Design, build, and deliver APIs. You’ll architect and implement APIs in Go, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and backward compatibility as well as ensuring they are well-documented.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support and own your software in production. You’ll participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliable operations and proactively address user pain points.
• Provide technical leadership. Plan, lead, and deliver complex, multi-team projects, ensuring alignment, resolving external dependencies, and mentoring teammates. We rotate tech lead responsibilities with each feature to allow everyone on the team to use and grow these skills.
• Communicate clearly and support team resilience. Regular written and verbal communication, collaboration, and feedback are foundational skills you'll use daily, supporting a healthy, effective team dynamic

What You’ll Bring:

• Deep experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs. You have substantial expertise (3+ years) building APIs with strong opinions about API design, versioning, error handling, and overall developer experience.
• Frontend proficiency with React and TypeScript. You have at least 1-2 years of professional experience delivering frontend features and contributing to full-stack software through all stages of the development lifecycle, though your primary expertise may be focused on APIs and backend systems.
• Ownership and autonomy. You proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and own your projects end-to-end from initial planning to deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Experience supporting production services. You've shipped features to production, have experience investigating and resolving production incidents, and ideally have participated in on-call rotations (see how we track on-call health).
• A collaborative and flexible mindset. You're comfortable working cross-functionally, pivoting priorities to address evolving customer or business needs, and maintaining strong teamwork.
• Balance between engineering excellence and customer value. You're skilled at iterating in small increments, quickly delivering user value, and continuously balancing technical investment with business goals.

Bonus Points (Nice-to-Haves):

• Experience building or maintaining a Terraform Provider.
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization (RBAC, SSO, SAML) solutions for SaaS products.

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.

 

 

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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