Senior Engineering Manager - Enablement

Honeycomb is a service defining observability and enhancing developer tools, working with notable companies across various industries. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Engineering Enablement team, focusing on developer feedback loops, AI development, and organizational change to enhance productivity and satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Own the developer feedback loops — the CI/CD, testing, dependency management, and tooling that let the whole org ship faster and more safely
• Lead AI-partnered development — incubate what the next chapter of AI-assisted engineering looks like at Honeycomb, for both human engineers and agents, and how observability plays into it
• Prove the ROI — define and track the developer-productivity and satisfaction metrics that give leadership confidence in the team's impact
• Lead change across the org — bring engineers inside and outside your team along, helping them welcome change rather than resist it
• Grow the team — support engineers and your manager community First Team through 1:1s, career development, and feedback loops

Requirements:

• Sustained, multi-year experience leading an engineering enablement / developer-experience team — enough tenure in prior roles to have steered large-scale change over time
• Fluency in CI/CD
• A track record of defining and tracking developer-productivity / ROI metrics — you can stand up the metrics program, not just consume it
• Cross-org change leadership — ideally having led an organization through a major workflow change or AI rollout
• Real depth with AI tooling
• The ability to distinguish good from bad AI usage, and to articulate your own AI philosophy
• Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb's domain)
• Experience running internal platform or tooling as a 'product,' with internal engineers as your customers
• You're still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but it won't be your primary role here)
• You've built your own AI-driven projects and tools