Senior Engineering Manager

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps engineering teams understand how their software behaves in production. The company is fully distributed and has closed Series D funding, scaled past 200 employees, and was named to Forbes' America's Best Startups of 2022 and 2023.

The Tenant team is behind Honeycomb Private Cloud, a product that allows enterprise customers to run their own Honeycomb instance. This role owns delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes.

• Own delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud — the infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes that let enterprise customers run Honeycomb inside their own cloud environment.
• Grow the product — anticipate significant growth in the next year; help meet sales goals and build relationships to support it.
• Work at the customer boundary — partner with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on PoCs, security reviews, access negotiations, and contract asks.
• Lead across the org — maintain a tight drift between SaaS and Private Cloud, prioritizing work that touches all parts of the engineering org.
• Ensure that Private-Cloud-inspired tooling is pushed back into SaaS infrastructure so each side continues to make the other better.
• Build the team — grow and develop a small, tenured, senior, very high-context team; remove single points of failure; hire and onboard engineers to scale the team.

• 3+ years as an Engineering manager for a highly technical, senior team.
• Solid track record as an engineer, influencing without authority, and leaving things better than you found them.
• Managed or led a team that carried a real production on-call rotation, treating operational health as a core requirement.
• Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don't fully control — on-prem, private cloud, BYOC, or managed single-tenant.
• Enough Kubernetes and AWS fluency to review a design, ask challenging questions, and be useful in an incident review.
• Comfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers: security questionnaires, access models, procurement, escalations.
• Ruthless prioritization on a small team with an enormous surface area.
• Hiring and onboarding engineers into a domain with a steep ramp.
• Comfort with AI tooling, and a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't.
• Comfort being an escalation point for engineering emergencies as part of the Foundation leadership team.

• Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb's domain).
• Still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but not the primary role).
• Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure.
• FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience.
• A field-adjacent past — solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineering.

Base Salary based on level of experience: $208,260—$234,000 USD

• Generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• Pay based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Unlimited PTO
• 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, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance

Honeycomb cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work. Honeycomb is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations as needed.