Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Honeycomb.io is a company focused on redefining observability and enhancing developer tools. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to deliver core observability capabilities, design and implement backend systems, and collaborate across teams to enhance product features.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs
- Build and maintain full-stack product features
- Provide technical leadership
- Collaborate across disciplines
- Support and own your software in production
- Communicate clearly and multiply your impact
Skills
- Deep experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems. You have solid experience building APIs and backend services in Go, with good judgment on API design and error handling
- Frontend proficiency with React and TypeScript. You have professional experience delivering frontend features and contributing to full-stack software through all stages of the development lifecycle, though your primary expertise is in backend systems
- Experience leading complex technical projects. You've planned and delivered complex projects within your team, breaking down ambiguous work and shipping incrementally
- Ownership and autonomy. You proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and deliver your teams projects end-to-end. You tackle tech debt proactively and can debug the toughest issues through the entire stack
- A track record of making others better. You know that quick code reviews for your teammates are as important as pushing code yourself, and enjoy helping others grow
- A collaborative and flexible mindset. You're comfortable working cross-functionally, pivoting priorities to address evolving customer or business needs, and maintaining strong teamwork. We work by building small changes and iterating based on customer interaction
- Clear, open communication. We see clear, thoughtful, and regular written and face-to-face communication — including a willingness to give and receive feedback — as a fundamental engineering skill and one of the strongest predictors of engineering impact, not just a nice to have, and we hope you do too
- An interest in observability and production culture. We maintain an on-call rotation and work hard to keep it from becoming a bad experience. You've supported software in production and have opinions about how to do it well. Bonus points if you want to fold that experience into the Honeycomb product itself
- Nice to have: experience with AI-assisted development. You're proficient with AI coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) or are excited to incorporate them into your workflow
Benefits
- 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 with unlimited PTO
- A distributed-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
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