Senior Software Engineer II - Storage Team

Honeycomb.io

68d • $183,340 - $206,000

About The Position

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! 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. The Storage Team at Honeycomb is the backbone of our platform, responsible for the performance, reliability, and scalability of storing and querying billions of events. As a senior engineer on Storage, you’ll work on high-impact systems where our customers may never see your code directly, but they’ll rely on it every time they use Honeycomb.

Requirements

• Technical leadership in storage and querying, with expertise in writing Go.
• Experience working on high-throughput or complex systems.
• Exposure to Kubernetes is a plus.
• Curiosity and experimentation in learning and problem-solving.
• Focus on business outcomes and customer impact.
• Strength in mentorship and teamwork.
• Resilience in collaboration and feedback.
• Execution with impact on complex, multi-team projects.
• Deep debugging expertise across the stack.
• Ability to influence beyond your team.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver high-quality solutions that power Honeycomb’s query and data storage infrastructure.
• Scope and deliver projects independently, breaking down complex storage and querying problems into achievable steps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to connect technical solutions to product needs.
• Support our services in production, participating in on-call rotations and defining team KPIs and SLOs.
• Learn new ways to solve complex problems as Honeycomb grows.
• Thrive on collaboration, offering constructive feedback and helping teammates grow.
• Bring a bit of fun to the team.

Benefits

• Generous equity with employee-friendly stock program.
• Transparent pay based on experience.
• Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical.
• Remote-first mindset and culture.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees