Senior Software Engineer II - Storage
Honeycomb.io2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$183k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement solutions for Honeycomb’s query and data storage infrastructure.
- Improve query performance, evolve the Retriever service, and make the storage layer more reliable and scalable.
- Break down complex storage and querying projects, manage trade-offs, and deliver work independently from design through production support.
- Collaborate with Product Management and engineering teams to connect technical solutions to product needs.
- Participate in on-call rotations, define team KPIs and SLOs, and proactively reduce operational toil.
- Diagnose and resolve difficult production issues and restore system reliability.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
- Drive foundational technical work and adoption of technologies that benefit engineering across the company.
Requirements
- Expertise writing Go and experience working on high-throughput or complex systems.
- Technical leadership designing patterns and guidelines that improve storage and querying performance and reliability.
- Ability to scope and deliver complex, multi-team projects while balancing production realities and business impact.
- Deep debugging expertise across the stack and experience supporting services in production.
- Ability to collaborate effectively, give and receive feedback, and mentor engineers.
- Database engineering experience is a plus.
- Comfort with Kubernetes is a plus.
Benefits
- Fully distributed and remote work arrangement.
- Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional dependent coverage available.
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood.
- Annual development allowance.
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About Honeycomb.io
Honeycomb.io builds a SaaS observability platform for software engineering, SRE, and DevOps teams to debug and operate distributed systems using tracing, event data, and high-cardinality queries. Its product integrates with OpenTelemetry and supports SLOs, instrumentation, and production debugging workflows. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and counts customers such as Slack, HelloFresh, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard.