At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of Honeycomb Private Cloud and drive product growth.
- Company: Join a fast-growing tech startup recognized by Forbes for innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, unlimited PTO, equity options, and full benefits.
- Other info: Embrace a fully remote culture with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in observability while working with top-tier clients.
- Qualifications: 3+ years as an Engineering Manager with strong technical and leadership skills.
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 feedback loops for developers and 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 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, treating operational health as a core requirement.
- Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don't fully control—on-prem, private cloud, BYOC, or managed single-tenant.
- Enough Kubernetes and AWS fluency to review a design and be useful in an incident review.
- Comfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers: security questionnaires, access models, procurement, escalations.
- 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.
- Comfort being an escalation point for engineering emergencies as part of the Foundation leadership team.
- Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry.
- Still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code.
- Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure.
- FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience.
Base Salary based on level of experience
$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.
- Transparent pay based on levels relative to experience.
- 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.
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work.
Senior Engineering Manager in Winnipeg employer: Honeycomb Enterprise
Honeycomb is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of inclusivity, autonomy, and growth, making it an ideal place for passionate professionals to thrive. With a fully distributed work environment, employees enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere while benefiting from generous equity options, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive benefits. The company prioritizes employee development and offers a supportive atmosphere where diverse perspectives are valued, ensuring that every team member can contribute meaningfully to innovative projects.
