Senior Software Engineer II - Storage
Honeycomb.io2 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-quality solutions for Honeycomb’s query and data storage infrastructure.
- Improve query performance, evolve the Retriever service, and increase storage-layer reliability and scalability.
- Scope and deliver complex projects independently from design through production support.
- Collaborate with Product Management and engineering teams to connect technical solutions to product needs.
- Participate in production on-call rotations, define team KPIs and SLOs, and proactively reduce operational toil.
- Explore storage techniques and query optimization strategies for systems operating at large scale.
- Pair with teammates, review code, provide constructive feedback, and mentor engineers.
- Diagnose and resolve difficult production issues and drive foundational work across engineering.
Requirements
- Expertise writing Go and experience building or operating high-throughput or complex systems.
- Technical leadership experience designing patterns and guidelines that improve performance and reliability.
- Experience scoping and delivering complex, multi-team projects with end-to-end ownership.
- Deep debugging expertise across production systems and a focus on reliability and business impact.
- Ability to mentor engineers, collaborate effectively, and influence adoption of technologies beyond the immediate team.
- Database engineering experience is a plus.
- Comfort with Kubernetes is a plus.
Benefits
- Fully distributed, remote-first work arrangement.
- CAD $250,000–$280,000 base salary depending on experience.
- Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
- Unlimited PTO.
- 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.