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Senior Engineering Manager (Tenant)

Honeycomb

Skills

Required

  • private cloud
  • Terraform
  • security questionnaires
  • access models
  • escalations
  • AI tooling
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • review a design
  • on-prem

Preferred

  • FedRAMP / GovCloud / regulated-industry compliance
  • infrastructure
  • tooling
  • operational processes

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 team. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including unlimited PTO, 401K retirement plans, and generous new hire equity.

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

Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb's domain)

About Honeycomb

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

Responsibilities

  • Ownership of the delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud, including infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes.
  • Collaboration with various teams to grow the product and meet sales goals, while maintaining a tight drift between SaaS and Private Cloud.
  • Leadership and development of a small, senior team, including hiring and onboarding new engineers as the product offering scales.
  • You've managed or led a team that carried a real production on-call rotation, and you treat operational health as a core requirement

Requirements

  • Comfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers: security questionnaires, access models, procurement, escalations
  • Comfort with AI tooling, and a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't
  • You have a solid track record as an engineer, influencing without authority, and leaving things better than you found them
  • 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
  • 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
  • 3+ years as an Engineering manager for a highly technical, senior team
  • Ruthless prioritization on a small team with an enormous surface area — you can name what you decided not to do, and why

Preferred

  • You're still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but it won't be your primary role here)
  • FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience
  • A field-adjacent past — solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineering

Pay

USD 208,260 - 234,000