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Senior Software Engineer (Agent Observability)

Honeycomb

Skills

Required

  • AI
  • software engineering
  • LLM / agent-powered
  • backend development
  • Go / Python
  • frontend development
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • observability tooling
  • OpenTelemetry

Preferred

  • data model
  • infrastructure
  • token usage

Join Honeycomb, a leading observability platform for AI. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work in a cross-functional team to build AI observability capabilities, contribute to the data model and infrastructure, and collaborate with product and design partners. Enjoy benefits such as unlimited PTO, 401K retirement plans, and generous new hire equity.

About Honeycomb

  • Deliver AI observability capabilities end to end, from ingestion to in-product visualizations.
  • Experience shipping customer-facing features at a SaaS company, beyond internal tooling

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the data model and infrastructure that let us observe agents and their ecosystems across the Honeycomb product.
  • Build systems that analyze and surface AI-specific signals, such as cost, token usage, errors, and anomalies.
  • A track record of navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving field where requirements shift and experimentation is a core part of the job

Requirements

  • Regular, hands-on use of AI tools in your day-to-day engineering work

3+ years of software engineering experience

  • Bonus: Experience building LLM or agent-powered features in production
  • Full-stack range, with proficiency in backend development (Go and/or Python) and frontend development (TypeScript and React)
  • A track record of working with product managers and designers
  • Bonus: Hands-on experience with observability tooling, such as OpenTelemetry

Benefits

  • Experience being on call. You'd join our rotation after about 90 days