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Senior Software Engineer I - OpenTelemetry

Remote - United States
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:

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.

What you’ll do in the role:

  • 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.

What you’ll bring to the role:

  • 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.

Base Salary based on level of experience

$160,000 - $180,000 USD

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
  • Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
  • 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.
 
 
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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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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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