Senior Engineering Manager - Tenant

About Honeycomb

Honeycomb is defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do. We work with companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard across a range of industries. We've closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes' America's Best Startups.

We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people, value culture, and provide deep trust, autonomy, and accountability.

About the Team

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps engineering teams understand how their software behaves in production. Our Tenant team is behind Honeycomb Private Cloud, a product that allows customers to run their own dedicated Honeycomb instance inside their cloud environment.

What You'll Do

• Own delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud: Drive the infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes that allow enterprise customers to run Honeycomb in their own cloud environments.
• Grow the product: Partner across the business to meet ambitious sales goals and build relationships supporting growth over the coming year.
• Work at the customer boundary: Partner with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on PoCs, security reviews, access negotiations, and contract requirements.
• Lead across the org: Private Cloud depends on many teams. Maintain tight alignment between SaaS and Private Cloud architectures and prioritize cross-cutting initiatives.
• Create developer feedback loops: Ensure tooling built for Private Cloud feeds back into our SaaS infrastructure to strengthen both platforms.
• Build and scale the team: Mentor, grow, and develop a senior, high-context team while hiring to support product expansion.

What We're Looking For

• 1+ year as an Engineering Manager for a highly technical, senior team.
• Strong engineering track record with proven ability to influence without authority.
• Experience managing or leading teams carrying a production on-call rotation with a strong focus on operational health.
• Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don't fully control (on-prem, private cloud, BYOC, or managed single-tenant).
• Working fluency with Kubernetes and AWS to participate in design reviews, ask critical questions, and aid incident post-mortems.
• Comfort interacting directly with enterprise buyers (security reviews, access models, procurement, escalations).
• Track record of ruthless prioritization on small teams with large surface areas.
• Proven success hiring and onboarding engineers into technically complex domains.
• Comfort with AI tooling and a pragmatic perspective on where it adds value.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with observability tools and OpenTelemetry.
• Enjoyment in occasionally contributing to or reviewing code.
• Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure.
• Experience with FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance.
• Previous background in solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineering.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $285,000 — $320,000 CAD
• Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program
• Transparent, level-based compensation model
• Unlimited PTO
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipends
• Comprehensive health benefits coverage
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Annual learning and development allowance