What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well-known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory—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!
Who We Are
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.
How We Work
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 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.
A Little More About the Team
AI is changing how software gets built, shipped, and run. It is increasing the need for sense-making of production software systems. We believe AI will reshape observability itself. Honeycomb created this category, and we want our next engineering leader to help us lead its reinvention.
The Role
You’ll join the executive team as a full partner in setting strategy. Our exec team acts as a first team, working closely together to revise our strategy as the world changes. Right now, it is changing often! You’ll bring a wealth of experience and an imagination of what’s possible, help sharpen our bets, and decide with your peers the most elegant way forward. Then you’ll shape a strong engineering org to deliver on these decisions.
What You’ll Do
- Shape the strategy: Form your own view of where the product, technology, and market are heading. Bring it to your closest partners: product and the CEO, and to the wider exec team. Some of our bets will need sharpening, and some new ones will need making.
- Build alignment at the top: We believe our strength as a company depends on the strength of our exec team. You’ll work closely with product and the CEO, challenging and being challenged in return, until the team is truly committed to a shared direction.
- Help the whole org to make sense of fast change: Explain engineering’s direction clearly and repeatedly to engineers, managers, the exec team, and the rest of the company in writing and presentations.
- Lead a high-performing team into what’s next: Aim our strong managers, directors, and ICs at our biggest opportunities and adjust the org’s structure, goals, and ways of working to be continually more effective.
- Lead from technical credibility: Bring a deep understanding of the ergonomics of the landslide of change underway in the AI era.
You Might Be a Fit If
- You’ve led engineering through large scale changes in direction, not just growth.
- You’ve shipped software with AI tools yourself within the last 12 months.
- You have a special talent for collaboration and improving executive teams.
- You’re as interested in shaping strategy as in executing it.
- You’ve worked at a larger company, and know what breaks as companies scale, but have the risk tolerance of someone from an early-stage startup.
- You’re comfortable with uncertainty, rapid change, and shaping new bets towards product-market fit.
- You’ve led distributed teams and communicate exceptionally well in writing and in person.
- You care about developer tools and have good taste in them.
- You share our core values and distributed culture.
What You'll Get When You Join the Hive
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- Transparent pay based on relative experience levels
- Time to recharge with unlimited PTO
- A distributed-first mindset and culture
- 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
- Annual development allowance
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time.
Timezone overlap
UTC-8–-4
Benefits
Equity, Unlimited PTO, Home office, Internet, Health, Parental leave, Learning, Coworking, Bonus, PTO
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