Senior Software Engineer I - App Observability

Little more about the team:

As a Senior Software Engineer I on the App O11y team, you'll be joining a team focused on delivering the core observability capabilities that power Honeycomb. Our ownership spans across querying, metrics, anomaly detection, and high-level analysis — the foundational workflows customers use to bring their telemetry to Honeycomb and investigate issues.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs. You'll architect and implement APIs and backend services in Go, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and backward compatibility. You'll think proactively about cost, scale, and risk, weighing tradeoffs when making decisions.
• Build and maintain full-stack product features. You'll contribute frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Go) code to build robust product features, maintaining proficiency across the stack. You'll deliver impactful features that add value for our customers, our team, and Honeycomb overall.
• Provide technical leadership. Lead delivery of complex projects within the team, partnering with other teams and engineers as needed. We rotate tech lead responsibilities with each feature to allow everyone on the team to use and grow these skills.
• Collaborate across disciplines. You'll work closely within a product triad model alongside design and product partners, from discovery through delivery, iterating quickly based on user feedback. You'll contribute to the team's technical roadmap and help shape quarterly product roadmaps, tying technical considerations to business outcomes.
• Support and own your software in production. You'll participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliable operations and proactively address user pain points. You know when to shift between forward-looking feature work and production needs.
• Communicate clearly and multiply your impact. Regular written and verbal communication, collaboration, and feedback are foundational skills you'll use daily — your goal is to make everyone around you more effective.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 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. We're actively exploring how AI can accelerate our development practices.