Honeycomb is built to help engineering teams deeply explore and understand their own production systems — in real time. It’s a service for the near and present future, where distributed systems are the new default, every service is a platform, and empowered generalist software engineers are the new ops. We are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to build technology that raises our industry’s expectations of what our tools can do for us. 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, as 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. 

The Honeycomb product handles enormous amounts of data and the Storage team owns the systems (called “Retriever” internally) responsible for storing and querying those data. Curious how we do it? Interested in finding ways to improve systems at scale? Come help us build resilient architectures, obsess over query performance and optimization, collaborate with product teams to ensure our customers have access to their data in a highly performant way, and have fun on a highly skilled and engaging team. We’re looking for a backend systems software developer to join the team. Our services are built in Go, and while experience with Go is not a requirement, an interest in becoming a Go expert is a must. It would be amazing (but not required) if you have some experience building databases, have worked with performance-limited environments or have Kubernetes Operator chops.

If you are interesting in learning more about the Storage team and our work, check out this talk on how we used serverless to speed up our server, this talk on why we chose to create a distributed columnar store and this blog post on our recent work to virtualize our storage engine.

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.

We are a remote-first 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

Our Interview Process:

We know that interviewing can be super stressful! So we want to be as transparent and kind as possible around what our interview process looks like. Please feel free to read more on this blog post.

But in general, here is the flow:

1. Recruiter Screen

2. Hiring Manager Screen

3. Technical Take Home exercise, as well as a 30 minute call with the team to talk through your work and decision-making process. And it's not about how far you get - it's more about how you think about and approach problems.

4. Virtual Onsite, where you'll meet more of the team, including members of the product triad.

We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. You don't need to be a millennial to join us, all gens are welcome! Further, we (of course) follow federal and state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email Talent@honeycomb.io to discuss accessible formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work; if we can do better - we want to know!