Senior Software Engineer - AI Intelligence

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. #LI-Remote

A little more about the team:

AI agents at Honeycomb investigate, reason, and act on real observability data. They live in Canvas: the agentic workspace where engineers go to understand their systems.

The Agentic Intelligence team has shipped Canvas, the Honeycomb MCP server, and the Canvas Agent and Canvas Skills surfaces. The roadmap ahead is about refining what we’ve built and shipping more on top of it.

We're a small, senior team and we work closely across R&D to get things done. This role leans frontend — most of your work will live there, with a healthy dose of supporting backend work. We're looking for someone who takes real ownership of the user experience in Canvas, advocates for it, and knows when to pull others in.

What you'll do in the role:

Ship AI product features. You'll own work across Canvas, our agents, and MCP, from backend infrastructure through the TypeScript frontend. The platform is real and in production. Your job is to make it better.

Work on agent infrastructure. Agent-store, agent-service, canvas-sync: the systems everything else depends on. You'll improve them and help ship the next iterations of this work.

Work full-stack. Golang on the backend, React/TypeScript on the frontend. You don't need to specialize in both, but you can't be blocked by either.

Own your software in production. On-call rotation, incident investigation, closing reliability gaps before they become a problem.

Work with design and product. We run a product triad. You'll give feedback early, make scope calls with context, and stay in the loop from kickoff through launch.

What you'll bring to the role:

You've shipped products on top of LLMs or agents. You know what's hard about building with these systems and how to work around that.

Strong React/TypeScript skills. You have opinions about component design and state management, and you've delivered product features end-to-end. This is your home base.

Enough backend to not be blocked. Golang experience, or close to it. You can own a backend workstream, contribute to agent infrastructure, and hold your own in a design review.

You care about the user experience. You bring real empathy for the user and want to own — or strongly shape — the UX in your domain. You like working closely with design and product, not just taking handoffs from them.

You get a problem and you move. Clear scope, right questions up front, done means done. You close quality debt; you don't leave things at 80%.

Production experience. You've shipped to prod, investigated incidents, and ideally done on-call.

You make the team around you better. You've mentored engineers, run design reviews, raised the quality bar for a codebase. People ask you first… and a bad pun won’t ruin your day.

You communicate clearly. Written and verbal, feedback both ways. We think this is an engineering skill, not a soft skill.

Bonus Points (Nice-to-Haves):

Observability or developer tooling background. You've built for engineers debugging production systems and you know what the stakes are.

Experience with evaluating agents. You've thought about how to measure whether an AI feature is actually working, not just whether it shipped.

Familiarity with MCP or agent framework integrations. You've built on top of MCP, LangChain, or similar.

Base Salary based on level of experience

$159,310—$179,000 USD

What you'll get when you join the Hive:

A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program

It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience

Time to recharge with unlimited PTO

A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)

Home office, co-working, and internet stipend

Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents

Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood

Annual development allowance

And much more...

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.

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All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address

We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.

Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:

Social security or tax identification numbers

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Diversity & Accommodations:

We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.

We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.

As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.

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