Senior Resident Architect

Honeycomb is an observability platform for teams building and managing software that matters. We are a fully distributed company, and this role is remote within the United States.

As a Senior Resident Architect, you will be among our most senior technical field engineers, serving as a critical escalation point for our biggest and thorniest technical challenges. You will lead customers in the strategic application of Honeycomb and observability practices, act as a trusted advisor on telemetry schema design, and become a subject-matter expert in sampling and Refinery operations.

• Lead customers in strategic application of Honeycomb and observability practices to meet technical and business goals.
• Partner with Customer Success Managers and Account Executives to articulate value proposition at executive and technical levels.
• Advise on telemetry schema design, data modeling, and sampling strategies.
• Teach, coach, and mentor engineering teams in observability, SRE concepts, and instrumentation best practices.
• Create high-quality reusable content including trainings, talks, blog posts, and reference architectures.
• Represent the voice of the customer in internal meetings with Engineering and Product Management.

• Deep understanding of OpenTelemetry and its ecosystem.
• Strong intuition for telemetry data modeling and cardinality.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm), and CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions).
• Previous experience in software development or system operations, with preference for distributed systems at scale.
• Fluency in at least one of: Ruby, Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, or .NET.
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.

On Target Earnings (OTE) based on level of experience (Base + Commission): $155,000—$185,000 USD.

• Generous equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• Full benefits coverage for employees
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Annual development allowance

Please apply via the Greenhouse link. Note: Honeycomb cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers.