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 and more 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 of bees. We have conviction and we 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. #LI-Remote
Platform Engineering - Managed Services & Infrastructure
- Own and operate customer-facing managed infrastructure including Refinery as a Service (RaaS) and Honeycomb Private Cloud (HnyPC) deployments across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
- Build and maintain Terraform modules, Helm charts, and deployment automation for provisioning and managing customer EKS clusters, collector pools, and Refinery instances.
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for managed service infrastructure - using Honeycomb to monitor Honeycomb.
- Manage scaling, upgrades, and incident response for customer deployments, including capacity planning and cost optimization across AWS infrastructure.
- Building autonomous deployment and management tooling for field-operated managed services.
Technical Escalation & Unblocking
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point for our most challenging customer situations - production incidents, complex collector configurations, Refinery tuning, and architecture reviews that exceed the scope of standard technical roles.
- Diagnose and resolve deep infrastructure and observability issues spanning distributed systems, Kubernetes clusters, AWS networking (ALBs, PrivateLink, NLBs, VPCs), and polyglot service meshes.
- Partner directly with customer SRE, platform, and engineering teams to troubleshoot real-time production issues, often under time pressure and with direct revenue impact.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for managed services (Refinery as a Service, Honeycomb Private Cloud), providing Tier 2 escalation support for customer-facing infrastructure issues.
- Build and maintain SOPs, runbooks, and diagnostic frameworks that accelerate resolution for the broader field and support teams.
Open Source & Ecosystem
- Contribute to and maintain OpenTelemetry distributions, collectors, exporters, and instrumentation libraries that our customers depend on.
- Represent Honeycomb in the OpenTelemetry community - participating in SIGs, reviewing PRs, triaging issues, and driving adoption of best practices.
- Build reference architectures, sample collector configurations, and integration guides that demonstrate effective instrumentation patterns for common customer environments (Kubernetes, ECS, serverless).
- Identify gaps in the open source ecosystem that create friction for customers and either contribute fixes upstream or build bridging solutions.
- Contribute features and improvements to Honeycomb’s own open source projects (Refinery, Honeycomb Collector Distro) to support managed service capabilities.
Technical Backstop for the Field
- Be the person Solutions Architects call when a deal goes deeper than demo and design - you join calls to troubleshoot live production environments, validate architecture decisions, and provide the infrastructure credibility that closes technical evaluations.
- Tag-team with SAs on strategic accounts, owning the infrastructure and data pipeline conversations while they own the product narrative.
- Lead architecture reviews, SLO workshops, and instrumentation deep-dives for customers evaluating or expanding Honeycomb - especially in complex environments (multi-cluster Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, high-cardinality workloads).
- Step into customer-facing POCs and pilots as the hands-on technical lead, standing up collector pools, configuring Refinery pipelines, and proving out integrations in the customer’s actual environment.
- Create feedback loops between the field and product/engineering, surfacing patterns from customer environments that inform roadmap priorities.
Internal Tooling & Cross-Functional Partnership
Build internal tools and UIs that improve the operational efficiency of managed services - deployment dashboards, rule management interfaces, monitoring tooling.
Partner with Solutions Architecture, Customer Success, and Support to provide technical depth on complex accounts.
Collaborate with Product and Engineering on customer-impacting bugs, feature gaps, and integration challenges - bringing real-world production context.
Contribute to field enablement by training internal teams on advanced troubleshooting, collector configuration, Refinery internals, and emerging reliability patterns.
What you'll get when you join the Hive:
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
- Time to recharge with unlimited PTO
- A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
- 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.
Phishing and Recruitment Scam Warning:
We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you:
- All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address
- We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.
- Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
- Social security or tax identification numbers
- Credit card numbers
- Bank account information
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 recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact
[email protected]. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.
