Senior Engineering Manager

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 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 come for the impact and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group. We have conviction and 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 fully distributed 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.

Little more about the team:

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps engineering teams understand how their software behaves in production. Our Tenant team is behind Honeycomb Private Cloud, a brand new product that allows customers to have their own Honeycomb instance.

What you’ll do:

• Own delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud — the infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes that let enterprise customers run Honeycomb inside their own cloud environment.
• Grow the product — help us meet sales goals and build relationships to support anticipated significant growth in the next year.
• Work at the customer boundary — partner with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on PoCs, security reviews, access negotiations, and contract asks.
• Lead across the org — understand and prioritize work that touches all parts of our engineering org.
• Ensure that we push Private-Cloud-inspired tooling back into our SaaS infrastructure.
• Build the team — grow and develop a small, tenured, senior team; hire and onboard the next engineers to scale the team as the product offering scales.

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years as an Engineering manager for a highly technical, senior team.
• A solid track record as an engineer, influencing without authority, and leaving things better than you found them.
• Experience managing or leading a team that carried a real production on-call rotation.
• Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don't fully control.
• Enough Kubernetes and AWS fluency to review a design and be useful in an incident review.
• Comfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers.
• Ruthless prioritization on a small team with an enormous surface area.
• Hiring and onboarding engineers into a domain with a steep ramp.
• Comfort with AI tooling and a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't.
• Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry.
• Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure.
• FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience.

Base Salary: $285,000 - $320,000 CAD

What you’ll get when you join the Hive:

• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program.
• Time to recharge with unlimited PTO.
• A distributed-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.
• 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 strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed.

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