Honeycomb.io

SeniorSoftwareEngineerII-ScaleTeam

CA$165–235k ~AI est. Canada Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer II - Scale Team at Honeycomb.io. Skills: Backend systems, Full-stack development, Technical leadership. Design backend systems. Build backend systems”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Debug toughest issues

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Backend systems and APIs in Go, Frontend proficiency with React and TypeScript, Ownership and autonomy, Experience supporting production services, Clear, open communication

Nice to Have

Billing and pricing experience, Experience with AI coding tools

What You'll Do.

Design backend systems

Build backend systems

Deliver backend systems

Architect backend services

Implement backend services

Emphasize maintainability

Emphasize backward compatibility

Anticipate technical issues

Build full-stack features

Maintain full-stack features

Contribute frontend code

Contribute backend code

Deliver impactful features

Collaborate with design partners

Collaborate with product partners

Iterate based on feedback

Support software in production

Own software in production

Participate in on-call rotations

Address user pain points

Provide technical leadership

Define operational guidelines

Plan complex projects

Lead complex projects

Deliver complex projects

Support team resilience

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product triad model; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication; Feedback

Process & Methodology

Agile

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: As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Scale team, you'll be joining a team that owns the horizontal product infrastructure our customers depend on as they scale. Features like authorization and access control, billing, usage reporting, and tags fall within our team scope. We're currently shaping the direction of our billing and pricing infrastructure and maturing our access control capabilities, with greenfield work ahead on customer-facing usage APIs, a major pricing and packaging overhaul, and new enterprise authorization features. What you’ll do in the role: Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs. You’ll architect and implement backend services and APIs in Go, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and backward compatibility. You’ll think pr

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