Honeycomb is the observability platform for teams who manage software that matters, providing unified, fast, and collaborative solutions for engineering teams.

Honeycomb, a Series D funded observability platform named in Forbes' America's Best Startups, is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join their remote-first team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the security foundation of a rapidly growing company with 200+ employees, serving notable clients like HelloFresh, Slack, and LaunchDarkly.

The position combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical work, requiring expertise in application security and enterprise-level security program development. You'll be instrumental in establishing security standards, performing reviews, and implementing tools while working closely with Product and Engineering teams.

The ideal candidate brings a diverse security background, combining application security expertise with incident response capabilities and full-stack engineering experience. You'll need to balance enterprise customer security expectations with practical implementation, while maintaining the ability to adjust priorities as needs evolve.

This role offers competitive compensation ($210,000-$235,000), generous equity, and comprehensive benefits including unlimited PTO, parental leave, and development allowances. The position is remote-first, emphasizing output over location, and is open to candidates in the US and Canada.

You'll join a culture that values inclusion, responsibility, and continuous learning, working with a passionate team that prioritizes customer experience and innovative solutions. This is an opportunity to significantly impact the security infrastructure of a growing technology company while enjoying the benefits of a flexible, supportive work environment.

Staff Security Engineer position at Honeycomb focusing on building and scaling security infrastructure for observability platform.

Staff Security Engineer

Honeycomb is the observability platform for teams who manage software that matters, helping engineering teams solve problems and fix issues before customers find them.

Honeycomb, a Series D-funded observability platform named to Forbes' America's Best Startups, is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join their Core Services team. This role focuses on building and managing critical infrastructure handling millions of messages per second through Kafka clusters and storage systems. The position offers the unique opportunity to work on high-scale distributed systems while collaborating with a remote-first, inclusive team serving notable clients like HelloFresh, Slack, and LaunchDarkly. The ideal candidate will balance technical expertise in both software engineering and operations with strong problem-solving abilities and cross-functional collaboration skills. The role offers competitive compensation ($190K-$235K), comprehensive benefits, and the chance to impact a rapidly growing platform that's raising industry standards for developer tools. This position welcomes candidates from the US and Canada to join a culture that values impact, inclusion, and technical excellence.

Staff Platform Engineer role at Honeycomb focusing on distributed systems, Kafka, and high-throughput services with competitive compensation and remote work options.

Staff Platform Engineer

Honeycomb builds tools to help engineering teams explore and understand production systems in real-time, focusing on distributed systems and developer tools.

Honeycomb is an innovative tech company that has recently closed Series D funding and scaled past 200 employees, earning recognition on Forbes' America's Best Startups list in 2022 and 2023. They're building a service for the modern era of distributed systems, offering tools that help engineering teams understand their production systems in real-time.

As a Product Engineer on the Signals team, you'll be working on core features of the Honeycomb platform, including derived columns, SLOs, and Triggers. The role requires expertise in both frontend (TypeScript/React) and backend (Go) development, with a strong emphasis on production system support and on-call responsibilities.

The company operates with a remote-first philosophy, believing that impact matters more than location. They follow a product triad model, encouraging close collaboration between engineering, design, and product teams. The culture emphasizes inclusivity, responsibility, and living their values daily.

What makes this role unique is the combination of full-stack development with a strong focus on production ownership. You'll be involved in everything from UI development to database migrations, while also participating in on-call rotations and system optimization. The company values practical solutions over perfect ones, encouraging rapid iteration and customer-focused development.

Benefits are comprehensive, including competitive base pay, equity, excellent healthcare coverage, unlimited PTO, and various stipends for professional development and home office setup. The company particularly stands out with its family-friendly policies and commitment to work-life balance.

For engineers looking to work with modern technologies while solving complex distributed systems challenges, this role offers an opportunity to join a growing company that's making a real impact in the developer tools space.

Mid-level Full Stack Software Engineer position at Honeycomb, working remotely on their Signals team, building and maintaining core platform features using TypeScript, React, and Go.

Midlevel Full Stack Software Engineer - Signals Team

Honeycomb is a service that helps engineering teams deeply explore and understand their own production systems in real time, specializing in distributed systems and empowering software engineers.

Honeycomb is seeking a midlevel backend engineer to join their Storage team, responsible for storing and querying enormous amounts of data. The role involves scaling high-throughput services, maintaining and maturing a distributed columnar datastore, supporting software in production, collaborating with a diverse team, and experimenting with new approaches. The ideal candidate should have an interest in becoming a Go expert, work well with other teams, care deeply about software quality and testing, and value clear, open communication. Honeycomb processes millions of events per second and aims to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance of their bespoke architecture. This remote-first company offers competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a culture focused on impact and living their values.

Honeycomb seeks a Midlevel Backend Engineer for their Storage team to scale high-throughput services and maintain a distributed columnar datastore.

Midlevel Backend Engineer - Storage Team

Honeycomb is a service that helps engineering teams deeply explore and understand their own production systems in real time, focusing on distributed systems and empowered generalist software engineers.

Honeycomb is building a service to help engineering teams deeply explore and understand their production systems in real time. As a Product Engineer on the Signals team, you'll join a growing product engineering team, working on features pivotal to the Honeycomb experience such as derived columns, SLOs, and Triggers. 

The role involves:
- Building and delivering quality software across the full application stack, primarily in Typescript/React and Go.
- Collaborating with cross-functional partners in design and product.
- Supporting software/systems in production, including participating in an on-call rotation.
- Learning new ways to solve complex problems as the company and product grow.

Key requirements:
- Experience working across an application stack, with modern frontend and backend languages.
- Comfortable supporting production software and investigating issues in deployed code.
- Strong sense of teamwork and ability to work effectively in a team.
- Flexible mindset to adapt to changing strategies or roadmaps.
- Ability to balance engineering investment with customer value.

Honeycomb offers a competitive compensation package, including:
- Base pay range of $155,000 - $165,000 USD
- Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Unlimited PTO policy plus additional company-wide time off
- Professional development allowance
- Remote-first culture with flexible scheduling
- Various other perks and benefits

Honeycomb is building a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. They are a remote-first company and can hire for this role in the United States and Canada.

Midlevel Full Stack Software Engineer for Honeycomb's Signals Team, building features for production system exploration and understanding.

Honeycomb is a rapidly expanding, well-funded startup committed to setting the benchmark for excellence in the InsureTech industry.

Honeycomb is a rapidly expanding, well-funded startup committed to setting the benchmark for excellence in the InsureTech industry. Our foundation is built on cutting-edge technology, but our greatest asset is our exceptional team of professionals. By seamlessly integrating AI, state-of-the-art technology, and profound human expertise, each engineer at Honeycomb plays a pivotal role in shaping our trajectory.

Honeycomb is expected to cross $100M in annual sales in Q1 2024 while maintaining its strong and highly sustainable growth.

As a Software Engineer Student at Honeycomb, you'll:
- Assist the AI team in all aspects of algorithm development, including code refactoring, data maintenance, and model deployment.
- Develop and implement machine learning pipelines for both production and research environments.
- Develop monitoring dashboards to visualize models' impact in production.
- Develop a scalable and real-time models execution system in production.
- Support machine learning operations (MLOps), ensuring seamless integration and efficient workflows.

Basic Requirements:
- Currently enrolled in a university program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. 3rd-year or 4th-year student with strong academic standing.
- Proficiency in Python with a solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming.
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts; coursework in machine learning, deep learning, tabular data, or natural language processing is an advantage.
- Strong problem-solving skills, a team player with a positive attitude, and a demonstrated ability to work independently.
- Availability to commit to a position of 60% time or more.
- Ability to transition to a full-time position within one to two years.

Join us and experience the tremendous impact you can make in the InsureTech industry while working with cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies.

Join Honeycomb as a Software Engineer Student to work on cutting-edge AI and machine learning projects in the InsureTech industry.

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