Senior Software Engineer I - App Observability

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

Requirements:

• 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