Senior Software Engineer (Agent Observability)

Join Honeycomb, a leading observability platform for AI. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work in a cross-functional team to develop AI observability capabilities, architect data models, and build systems that analyze AI-specific signals. You'll collaborate with product and design partners, teach best practices, and iterate through fast feedback loops. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including unlimited PTO, 401K retirement plans, and generous new hire equity.

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

About Honeycomb

• End-to-end development of AI observability capabilities, from ingestion to in-product visualizations.
• A track record of working closely with product managers and designers
• A track record of navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving field where requirements shift and experimentation is a core part of the job

Responsibilities

• Architecting and evolving the data model and infrastructure that let us observe agents and their ecosystems across the Honeycomb product.
• Building systems that analyze and surface AI-specific signals, such as cost, token usage, errors, and anomalies.

Requirements

• Experience shipping customer-facing features at a SaaS company, beyond internal tooling
• Significant software engineering experience, with a record of shipping and owning features end to end
• 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)
• Bonus: Hands-on experience with observability tooling, such as OpenTelemetry
• Regular, hands-on use of AI tools in your day-to-day engineering work

Pay

USD 183,340 - 206,000