Senior Software Engineer II - Agentic Intelligence

Honeycomb is building observability and developer tools for the near and present future. The Senior Software Engineer II will design, build, and deliver production-grade AI agents that investigate, reason over, and act on live observability data within Canvas, while expanding agent capabilities across Canvas, the MCP server, and Canvas Skills.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver production-grade agents. Build agents that investigate, reason, and act on live observability data inside Canvas. These agents must be trustworthy to engineers in high pressure situations, including mid-incident. Take one from rough first version to something that holds up under production traffic
• Own the agent work; support the whole product. Scope, build, ship, and maintain the agents including the evals that tell you whether they got better or are just different. This role is agent-focused and also includes some fullstack development
• Build agents only Honeycomb can build. Use a data store that returns high-cardinality queries in seconds to reason over signal a conventional backend can't serve at this fidelity correlating across services, drilling into a single trace, comparing before and after a deploy
• Extend the surface, and decide what's next. Ship new capability into Canvas, the MCP server, and Canvas Skills memory, spatial awareness, a faster Bedrock loop and make the case for what comes after with working code. Distinguish hype from signal in a field with plenty of both
• Define what "good" means for agents here. Set the bar: measurable against real evals, maintainable, and honest about their limits