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 as one of America's Best Startups.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, unlimited PTO, equity options, and full benefits coverage.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse, inclusive team that values innovation and personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in observability while working with top-tier clients like Slack and HelloFresh.
- Qualifications: 1+ year as an Engineering Manager with strong technical and leadership skills.
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 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!
Who We Are
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 — 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:
- 1+ year 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.
Bonus points:
- Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry.
- Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure.
- FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience.
- A field-adjacent past — solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineering.
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.
- 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...
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.io
At Honeycomb, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of inclusivity, autonomy, and growth. As a fully distributed company, we offer unlimited PTO, generous equity options, and a commitment to employee development, ensuring that our team members thrive both personally and professionally. Join us in shaping the future of observability while working alongside passionate peers in a supportive environment that values diverse perspectives.
