About Honeycomb

Honeycomb is defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do. We work with well-known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard. We are a fully distributed company, believing that how you deliver matters most. We invest in our people, imbue trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1.

The Storage Team

The Storage Team at Honeycomb is the backbone of our platform, responsible for the performance, reliability, and scalability of storing and querying billions of events. We design and own the architecture that powers correct and dependable query results, enabling every product experience from Metrics to Triggers and SLOs. As a senior engineer on Storage, you’ll work on high-impact systems that customers rely on every time they use Honeycomb.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Build and deliver high-quality solutions. Design and implement solutions that power Honeycomb’s query and data storage infrastructure. This includes improving query performance, evolving the Retriever service, or making our storage layer more reliable.
• Scope and deliver projects independently. Break down complex storage and querying problems into achievable steps, surface trade-offs, and pull in teammates when needed. Take ownership end-to-end—from design to production support—reducing toil and ensuring measurable customer and business impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners. Work closely with Product Management and other engineering teams to connect technical solutions to product needs, from problem discovery through solution design and delivery. This work enables every Honeycomb product experience.
• Support our services in production. Participate in on-call rotations, help define team KPIs and SLOs, and proactively reduce toil by addressing reliability challenges before they reach customers.
• Learn new ways to solve complex problems. Explore new technologies, data storage techniques, and query optimization strategies to maintain performance and reliability at scale as Honeycomb grows.
• Thrive on collaboration. Enjoy pairing, reviewing code, and offering constructive feedback. Model strong ownership and help teammates grow, keeping conversations forward-looking and focused on business value.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Technical leadership in storage and querying. Lead the design of patterns and guidelines that improve performance and reliability. Bring expertise in writing Go and experience working on high-throughput or complex systems. Prior experience with database engineering is a plus, as is comfort with Kubernetes.
• Curiosity and experimentation. Learn by digging in—individually, in pairs, or as a team. Ask questions to better understand complex systems, explore trade-offs, and believe in learning from incidents to improve technology and practices.
• Focus on business outcomes. Tie technical decisions to customer and company impact, weighing necessity and considering how projects affect the broader business.
• Strength in mentorship and teamwork. Guide engineers through code reviews and help spread knowledge across a team with diverse skillsets so that ownership of critical paths is shared.
• Resilience in collaboration. Thrive in a senior-heavy team, giving and receiving feedback with grace, and contributing to a culture where tough problems and hard conversations lead to better outcomes.
• Execution with impact. Scope and deliver complex, multi-team projects while balancing production realities, proactively reducing toil, and ensuring systems deliver measurable customer value.
• Deep debugging expertise. Diagnose and resolve the toughest production issues across the stack, restoring reliability where others may be stuck.
• Influence beyond your team. Multiply impact by sharing knowledge, guiding adoption of new technologies, and driving foundational work that benefits Honeycomb engineering as a whole.

Important Note

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