Honeycomb.ioRemote
Senior Software Engineer II - Scale Team
United States of America
Full Time
3 weeks ago
$183,000 - $205,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
TypeScriptGoAIClaudeReactOAuthSAMLSSOSaaSLeadershipCommunication
About this role
Honeycomb is a service focused on observability, partnering with notable companies like HelloFresh and Slack. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer II for their Scale team to design and deliver backend systems and APIs, while also contributing to full-stack product features and providing technical leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs
- Build and maintain full-stack product features
- Collaborate across disciplines
- Support and own your software in production
- Provide technical leadership
- Communicate clearly and support team resilience
Requirements:
- Deep experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems
- Substantial expertise building backend services and APIs in Go (or similar languages)
- Strong opinions about system design, error handling, and developer experience
- Frontend proficiency with React and TypeScript
- Professional experience delivering frontend features and contributing to full-stack software through all stages of the development lifecycle
- Ownership and autonomy
- Proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and own your projects end-to-end from initial planning to deployment and ongoing maintenance
- Tackle tech debt proactively and can debug the toughest issues through the stack
- A track record of making others better
- Mentored engineers, led technical design reviews, and helped raise the quality bar for a team or domain
- Experience supporting production services
- Shipped features to production, have experience investigating and resolving production incidents, and ideally have participated in on-call rotations
- A collaborative and flexible mindset
- Comfortable working cross-functionally, pivoting priorities to address evolving customer or business needs, and maintaining strong teamwork
- Clear, open communication
- Experience with AI-assisted development
- Proficient with AI coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) or are excited to incorporate them into your workflow
- Auth experience
- Implemented authentication and/or authorization (RBAC, OAuth, SSO, SAML) solutions for SaaS products in previous roles
- Billing and pricing experience
- Built or maintained usage-based pricing systems for SaaS products in previous roles