Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Deep understanding of OpenTelemetry, its projects, components, SDKs, and ecosystem, along with the ability to guide customers through complex instrumentation decisions
• Strong intuition for how telemetry data should be modeled and organized: what makes an event schema useful vs. noisy, how to think about cardinality, and how to design for long-term queryability
• The ability to understand an application's architecture and flow well enough to instrument it effectively and advise others doing the same
• Working knowledge of popular cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm), and CI/CD platforms and practices (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Previous experience in Software Development or System Operations, with a strong preference for candidates who have worked on distributed systems at scale
• Fluency in at least one of: Ruby, Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, or.NET, familiarity with multiple languages and/or frameworks is a strong plus
• Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills, with the ability to tailor depth and framing for both engineering teams and technical leadership
• Ability to take a loosely defined goal, scope it into a concrete deliverable, and ship it
• Comfort moving between long-horizon advisory work and short, focused delivery engagements

Bonus points for:

• Previous experience in Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Sales Engineering, or Consulting
• Deep understanding of Distributed Tracing concepts (Context Propagation, Sampling, Visualization, etc.)

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...
• 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
• Credit card numbers
• Bank account information