Midlevel Software Engineer- Storage

What We’re BuildingHoneycomb defined the concept of observability and is raising expectations of what our developer tools can do! Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn't before. It enables engineers to answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications, so they can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster and focus on high-value work that drives innovation. 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 150-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022!
The Honeycomb product handles enormous amounts of data and the Storage team owns the systems (called “Retriever” internally) responsible for storing and querying those data. Curious how we do it? Interested in finding ways to improve systems at scale? Come help us build resilient architectures, obsess over query performance and optimization, collaborate with product teams to ensure our customers have access to their data in a highly performant way, and have fun on a highly skilled and engaging team. We’re looking for a backend software developer to join the team. Our services are built in Go, and while experience with Go is not a requirement, an interest in becoming a Go expert is a must.
If you are interesting in learning more about the Storage team and our work, check out this talk on how we used serverless to speed up our servers and this talk on why we chose to create a distributed columnar store.
Who We AreWe 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 WorkWe are a remote-first 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.
We can hire for this role in the United States and Canada.

What You'll do in the role

• Scale high-throughput services. Honeycomb processes millions of events per second for our customers. This role will let you explore this bespoke architecture and contribute to improving its efficiency, reliability and performance. You’ll help us ensure that the product remains performant for all of our customers, irrespective of their size and complexity.
• Support software in production. We believe in owning the software that we build. Ownership is built through collaborating to define our team’s KPIs, product SLOs, and alerts. Every engineer on the team participates in an on-call rotation to support issues that our customers encounter (reactive), to improve sticking points that our customers may face (proactive), and to eliminate sources of engineering toil.
• Partner with your team. The Storage team is a highly collaborative, diverse, dedicated and enthusiastic group of individuals working towards a common goal. You’ll have plenty of opportunity to partner with and drive high impact initiatives that enable our customers to do their best work.
• Experiment. There aren’t many easy answers on the Storage team. We lean into a culture of experimentation and data-backed development to test out our hypotheses. If you love a culture of experimentation, this is a great place to be.

About You:

• This role would be a good fit for someone who:
• Works well with other teams. As a product-focused team in the platform engineering org, Storage enables other engineering teams to deliver new and exciting features to our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to explore ways we can support these efforts as well as consider ways to unlock additional functionality for the company.
• Cares deeply about software quality and testing.A strong candidate for this role would be interested in testing and have experience finding the best ways to keep a high level of quality without spending an ever-growing amount of time on maintaining tests. They would also be a practiced code reviewer: able to give kind, thoughtful feedback to other engineers on pull requests to the codebase.
• Values clear, open communica