Senior Software Engineer II - Scale Team

Honeycomb is a service focused on observability and developer tools, currently experiencing significant growth and recognition. The Senior Software Engineer II on the Scale team will design and deliver backend systems and APIs, contribute to full-stack product features, and provide technical leadership while collaborating across disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs
• You’ll architect and implement backend services and APIs in Go, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and backward compatibility
• You’ll think proactively about cost, scale, and risk — anticipating technical issues and exploring alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly
• Build and maintain full-stack product features
• You’ll contribute frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Go) code to build robust product features, maintaining proficiency across the stack
• You’ll deliver impactful features that add value for our customers, our team, and Honeycomb overall
• Collaborate across disciplines
• You’ll work closely within a product triad model alongside design and product partners, from discovery through delivery, iterating quickly based on user feedback
• Support and own your software in production
• You’ll participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliable operations and proactively address user pain points
• Provide technical leadership
• You'll define patterns and operational guidelines that raise the bar for the team and beyond
• You'll plan, lead, and deliver complex, multi-team projects, ensuring alignment and mentoring teammates along the way
• We rotate tech lead responsibilities with each feature to allow everyone on the team to use and grow these skills
• Communicate clearly and support team resilience
• Regular written and verbal communication, collaboration, and feedback are foundational skills you'll use daily, supporting a healthy, effective team dynamic

Requirements:

• Deep experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems
• Substantial expertise building backend services and APIs in Go (or similar languages), with strong opinions about system design, error handling, and developer experience
• Professional experience delivering frontend features and contributing to full-stack software through all stages of the development lifecycle, though your primary expertise is in backend systems
• 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
• Mentored engineers, led technical design reviews, and helped raise the quality bar for a team or domain
• Experience shipping features to production, investigating and resolving production incidents, and ideally have participated in on-call rotations
• Comfortable working cross-functionally, pivoting priorities to address evolving customer or business needs, and maintaining strong teamwork
• Clear, thoughtful, and regular communication, including a willingness to give and receive feedback
• Proficient with AI coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) or are excited to incorporate them into your workflow
• Implemented authentication and/or authorization (RBAC, OAuth, SSO, SAML) solutions for SaaS products in previous roles
• Billing and pricing experience. You've built or maintained usage-based pricing systems for SaaS products in previous roles