Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Honeycomb is an observability platform for teams building and managing software. We are a fully distributed company, and this role is remote in Ireland. We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE team, working at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and organizational enablement. You will help scale backend systems, lead cross-team projects, and participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation.

• Help scale Honeycomb's backend systems to support high-volume customers.
• Build organizational trust through transparent communication and direct feedback.
• Work with backend teams to optimize infrastructure usage.
• Become an Incident Commander and train others.
• Help develop a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture.
• Participate in on-call rotation as the EU side of a follow-the-sun rotation.
• Navigate tradeoffs between reliability and other goals.

• Strong experience in AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cost analysis and reduction.
• Solid Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD experience.
• Project management skills.
• Software engineering experience (Golang a plus).
• Experience with Kafka or another high-volume distributed system.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation).
• Comfort operating in ambiguity.
• Experience working in geographically distributed teams.

Compensation: Base salary €140,590—€165,400 EUR based on experience.

Benefits: Generous equity, unlimited PTO, home office/co-working/internet stipend, full benefits coverage, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, annual development allowance.

Application: Apply via the Greenhouse link. Note: We cannot sponsor or support visa transfers at this time.