Honeycomb.io builds an observability platform that helps engineering teams understand how their applications behave in production. It brings logs, metrics, and traces together for investigation, with distributed tracing, anomaly detection, and service maps to help teams spot and diagnose issues. The platform works with services including AWS and Kubernetes and supports OpenTelemetry. Honeycomb.io’s product is designed to help teams resolve incidents and make changes with greater confidence.
Senior Engineering Manager, Private Cloud
Lead Honeycomb’s Private Cloud product for enterprise observability, delivering infrastructure for customer deployments. Grow the engineering team and coordinate customer-facing infrastructure work.
Description
- Deliver Honeycomb Private Cloud infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes.
- Expand the product, support sales objectives, and build customer relationships.
- Work with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on proofs of concept, security reviews, access negotiations, and contract requests.
- Coordinate engineering teams and keep SaaS and Private Cloud work aligned.
- Bring tools developed for Private Cloud back into SaaS infrastructure.
- Develop and grow a senior engineering team.
- Reduce single points of failure, then hire and onboard engineers as the product grows.
Requirements
- At least one year managing a highly technical, senior engineering team.
- A strong engineering record, with experience influencing without authority and improving the systems and teams you join.
- Experience managing or leading a team with a live production on-call rotation.
- Experience shipping and operating software in on-premises, private cloud, BYOC, or managed single-tenant environments.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS sufficient to review designs and contribute to incident reviews.
- Experience working with enterprise customers on security questionnaires, access models, procurement, and escalations.
- Ability to set firm priorities for a small team with a broad remit.
- Experience hiring and onboarding engineers in a domain with a steep learning curve.
- Comfort using AI tools and a considered view of where they are appropriate.
- Must verify identity and U.S. work eligibility; Honeycomb cannot sponsor visas or support visa transfers at this time.
Benefits
- Generous equity through an employee-friendly stock program.
- Transparent compensation set by level and experience.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- A distributed-first culture and working approach.
- Stipend for home office equipment, coworking, and internet.
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional dependent coverage available.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood.
- Annual allowance for professional development.
- Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.