Senior Engineering Manager - Enablement

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We work with well-known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, Vanguard, and more across a range of industries.

About the Team

The Engineering Enablement team equips Honeycomb to innovate quickly and safely. It gives engineers fast, reliable feedback loops at every stage of the software development lifecycle through cohesive, forward-thinking tooling and platform infrastructure—so that as our organization scales and our product evolves, both human developers and AI agents can keep shipping with confidence.

Our biggest current bet is Autobots, a centralized platform of autonomous agents that participate reliably, safely, and securely in Honeycomb's engineering workflows. Alongside Autobots, the team owns the foundations that make this possible: CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, RWX, Namespace, GitHub Actions), testing health in JS and Go, shared dependency management, developer tooling (linters, TypeScript, build/run, internal OTel adoption, feature flags), and web performance.

What You'll Do

• Own the developer feedback loops: Direct the CI/CD, testing, dependency management, and tooling that let the entire organization ship faster and more safely.
• Lead AI-partnered development: Incubate what the next chapter of AI-assisted engineering looks like at Honeycomb for both human engineers and agents, and explore how observability plays into it.
• Prove the ROI: Define and track developer-productivity and satisfaction metrics that demonstrate clear value and impact to leadership.
• Lead change across the org: Guide engineers inside and outside your team through major workflow and tooling evolutions.
• Grow the team: Support engineers and your manager community through 1:1s, career development, and feedback loops.

What We're Looking For

• Sustained, multi-year experience leading an engineering enablement / developer-experience team.
• Deep fluency in CI/CD systems and architecture.
• Proven track record of defining and tracking developer-productivity and ROI metrics.
• Experience leading cross-organizational change (e.g., major workflow updates or AI rollouts).
• Practical depth with AI tooling, with the ability to distinguish effective AI usage and articulate an AI engineering philosophy.
• Familiarity with observability and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience running internal platform or tooling initiatives like a product, treating internal engineers as customers.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on interest in contributing to or reviewing code.
• Experience building your own AI-driven tools or projects.

Benefits & Perks

• Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
• Transparent pay structures based on defined job levels.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipends.
• Full health coverage for employees, with additional dependent coverage available.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Annual professional development allowance.