Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Honeycomb.io is redefining observability and enhancing developer tools. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to design and implement backend systems, build product features, and provide technical leadership within the LLM Observability team.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs
- Build and maintain full-stack product features
- Provide technical leadership
- Collaborate across disciplines
- Support and own your software in production
- Communicate clearly and multiply your impact
Skills
- Deep experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems. You have substantial expertise building APIs and backend services in Go (or similar languages), with strong opinions about API design, error handling, and developer experience
- 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 projects that span multiple teams or systems, navigating external dependencies and uncertainty
- Ownership and autonomy. You proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and own your projects end-to-end — from planning through deployment and ongoing maintenance
- A track record of making others better. You've mentored engineers, led technical design reviews, and helped raise the quality bar for a team or domain
- A collaborative and flexible mindset. You're comfortable working cross-functionally, pivoting priorities to address evolving customer or business needs, and maintaining strong teamwork
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- Time to recharge with unlimited PTO
- A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Annual development allowance
- And much more...
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