Honeycomb.io
Technology
SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.
“Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Honeycomb.io. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, AWS, Kubernetes, Distributed systems. Scale backend systems. Build organizational trust”
Industry & Context.
Solve ambiguous problems; Data-driven decisions
On-call rotation, Follow-the-sun rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
AWS experience, Kubernetes experience, Cost analysis experience, Helm experience, Terraform experience, CI/CD experience, Software engineering experience, Kafka experience, Distributed system experience, Geographically distributed teams experience
Nice to Have
Golang experience, Performance engineering experience, Observability concepts familiarity, SLOs familiarity, Instrumentation familiarity, Data-driven decision making familiarity
What You'll Do.
Scale backend systems
Build organizational trust
Make most of infrastructure
Become Incident Commander
Train Incident Commanders
Develop engineering culture
Participate in on-call rotation
Navigate tradeoffs reliability goals
Act as external ambassador
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Backend teams; Cross-team projects; Geographically distributed teams
Communication Scope
Transparent communication; Direct feedback; Kind feedback; Tailor communication
Process & Methodology
Project management
Full Job Description
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! If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases. 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 Little more about the team: Honeycomb’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team works at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and organizational enablement. We lead technically complex, cross-team projects that improve reliability, scale systems, and make life easier for engineering teams. We’re trusted across the company to set direction, solve ambiguous problems, and build processes that run smoothly. Our work spans AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Kafka, and other tools, aligned with the sociotechnical needs of scaling a fast-growing company. We’re a collaborative, diverse team that values experimentation, data-driven decisions, and maintaining a safe environment for healthy debate and innovation. What you’ll do in the role: Help Honeycomb scale ou
Applying for this Senior Site Reliability Engineer role?
Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.
How to Apply on Greenhouse
- Create a Greenhouse profile before applying — it saves time across multiple applications.
- Upload your resume as a PDF; the parser handles it better than Word.
- Answer all knockout questions carefully — wrong answers auto-reject before a human sees you.
- Enable email notifications to track application status in real time.
ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED
What do employees actually say about Honeycomb.io?
Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.