Senior Software Engineer I - App Observability

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 fully distributed 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. Little more about the team: As a Senior Software Engineer I on the App O11y team, you'll be joining a team focused on delivering the core observability capabilities that power Honeycomb . Our ownership spans across querying, metrics, anomaly detection, and high-level analysis — the foundational workflows customers use to bring their telemetry to Honeycomb and investigate issues. What you’ll do in the role: Design, build, and deliver backend systems and APIs. You'll architect and implement APIs and backend services in Go, emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and backward compatibility. You'll think proactively about cost, scale, and risk, weighing tradeoffs when making decisions. Build and maintain full-stack product features. You'll contribute frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Go) code to