Honeycomb.io
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb.io. Skills: AI agents, Observability, Developer tooling. Investigate observability data. Reason on observability data”
Industry & Context.
Incident investigation
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Production experience, Shipped to prod, Investigated incidents, Done on-call, Make team better, Mentored engineers, Run design reviews, Raised quality bar, Communicate clearly, Written and verbal feedback
Nice to Have
Observability background, Developer tooling background, Built for engineers debugging, Evaluating agents experience, Familiarity with MCP, Agent framework integrations
What You'll Do.
Investigate observability data
Reason on observability data
Act on observability data
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Senior team; Cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Written feedback; Verbal feedback
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 A little more about the team: AI agents at Honeycomb investigate, reason, and act on real observability data. They live in Canvas: the agentic workspace where engineers go to understand their systems. The Agentic Intelligence team has shipped Canvas, the Honeycomb MCP server, and the Canvas Agent and Canvas Skills surfaces. The roadmap ahead is about refining what we’ve built and shipping more on top of it. We're a small, senior team and we work closely across R you don't leave things at 80%. Production experience. You've shipped to prod, investigated incidents, and ideally done on-call. You make the team around you better. You've mentored engineers, run design reviews, raised the quality bar for a codebase. People ask you first… and a bad pun won’t ruin your day. You communicate clearly
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