Senior Engineering Manager (Tenant)

Join Honeycomb, a leading observability platform, as a Senior Engineering Manager. In this role, you will own the delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud, drive product growth, and lead cross-organizational initiatives. You will also build and develop a high-performing engineering team. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including unlimited PTO, 401K retirement plans, and generous new hire equity.

3+ years as an Engineering manager for a highly technical, senior team

Hiring and onboarding engineers into a domain with a steep ramp

Comfort being an escalation point for engineering emergencies as part of the Foundation leadership team

Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don't fully control — on-prem, private cloud, BYOC, or managed single-tenant. You know what version skew, partial telemetry, and customer security constraints do to a roadmap

You're still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but it won't be your primary role here)

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time

About Honeycomb

Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb's domain)

Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes.
• Grow the product by meeting sales goals and building relationships to support significant growth.
• Lead cross-organizational efforts to maintain a tight drift between SaaS and Private Cloud, prioritizing work that touches all parts of the engineering organization.
• Enough Kubernetes and AWS fluency to review a design, ask the challenging questions, and be useful in an incident review. You don't need to be the person writing the Terraform

Requirements

• You've managed or led a team that carried a real production on-call rotation, and you treat operational health as a core requirement
• Comfort with AI tooling, and a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't
• Comfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers: security questionnaires, access models, procurement, escalations
• Ruthless prioritization on a small team with an enormous surface area — you can name what you decided not to do, and why
• You have a solid track record as an engineer, influencing without authority, and leaving things better than you found them

Preferred

• A field-adjacent past — solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineering
• FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience