Senior Software Engineer II - Agentic Intelligence
Honeycomb.io2 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, ship, and maintain production-grade agents that investigate, reason over, and act on live observability data in Canvas.
- Own agent development end to end, including prototyping, productionization, evaluation, and ongoing maintenance.
- Use Honeycomb’s high-cardinality data store to enable investigations involving service correlation, trace analysis, and deploy comparisons.
- Extend Canvas, the MCP server, and Canvas Skills with features such as memory, spatial awareness, and improved Bedrock-loop performance.
- Define measurable standards for agent quality, reliability, maintainability, and limitations.
- Contribute to broader product development through some full-stack engineering and help determine future agent capabilities with working prototypes.
Requirements
- Production experience shipping LLM-based AI agent systems that people relied on, beyond demos or research-only model fine-tuning.
- Ability to independently take software from rough prototype through production-grade implementation without requiring a handoff queue.
- Deep understanding of agent architecture and how fast, high-cardinality data stores affect agent reasoning.
- Current, informed judgment about recent advances and changes in agent design.
- Strong product judgment and ability to identify and demonstrate what agent capabilities should come next.
- Observability or developer-tools experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt engineering is preferred.
Benefits
- CAD $250,000–$280,000 base salary based on experience level.
- Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Fully distributed, remote-first work arrangement.
- 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.