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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Honeycomb.io

Honeycomb.io

Software Engineering
United States · Remote
USD 210,485-236,500 / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 20, 2025
What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
How We Work
We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Little more about the team:

Honeycomb’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team works at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and organizational enablement. We lead technically complex, cross-team projects that improve reliability, scale systems, and make life easier for engineering teams. We’re trusted across the company to set direction, solve ambiguous problems, and build processes that run smoothly. Our work spans AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes and Helm, Terraform, and other tools, aligned with the sociotechnical needs of scaling a fast-growing company. We’re a collaborative, diverse team that values experimentation, data-driven decisions, and maintaining a safe environment for healthy debate and innovation.

What you’ll do in the role:

Lead technically complex, cross-functional projects to help Honeycomb scale.

  • Help manage and grow our vendor relationships (like with AWS) - including strategic negotiations - and help others do the same.
  • Build organizational trust through transparent communication with engineering leadership and stakeholders.
  • Shape how the SRE team engages with the rest of Honeycomb (program management, embedding, education).
  • Drive technical improvements in AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform usage.
  • Contribute to platform strategy and vision.
  • Improve and refine processes to ensure smooth operations and reduce friction for engineering teams.
  • Act and train others as an Incident Commander, and participate in the Platform on-call rotation.
  • Improve the internal observability of our systems through technical projects and enablement.
  • Help the organization navigate tradeoffs between reliability and its other goals and priorities.
  • Optional: act as an external ambassador through blog posts, conference talks, and presentations with support from our DevRel team.

What You’ll Bring:

  • Strong experience in leading cross-team or organizational-level technical initiatives.
  • Strong experience in AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Solid Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD skills.
  • Experience with software engineering (Golang is a plus).
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to manage up, negotiate, influence, and bring stakeholders along.
  • A balance of technical depth and organizational perspective, with the ability to scale systems and processes.
  • Familiarity with observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation) and data-driven decision making.
  • Experience with incident and change management.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a bias for action and experimentation.
  • Interest in both the technical and human sides of reliability engineering.
  • A curiosity to learn how people and systems work, and the willingness to make them partners in your initiatives.
Base Salary based on level of experience
$210,485$236,500 USD

What you'll get when you join the Hive:

  • A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
  • It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
  • Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
  • A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
  • Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
  • 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
  • Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
  • Annual development allowance
  • And much more...
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.
For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.