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Last checked Nov 4, 2026.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years as an Engineering manager for a highly technical, senior team.
• You have a solid track record as an engineer, influencing without authority, and leaving things better than you found them.
• You've managed or led a team that carried a real production on-call rotation, and you treat operational health as a core requirement.
• Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don't fully control — on-prem, private cloud, BYOC, or managed single-tenant. You know what version skew, partial telemetry, and customer security constraints do to a roadmap.
• Enough Kubernetes and AWS fluency to review a design, ask the challenging questions, and be useful in an incident review. You don't need to be the person writing the Terraform.
• Comfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers: security questionnaires, access models, procurement, escalations.
• Ruthless prioritization on a small team with an enormous surface area — you can name what you decided not to do, and why.
• Hiring and onboarding engineers into a domain with a steep ramp.
• Comfort with AI tooling, and a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't.
• Comfort being an escalation point for engineering emergencies as part of the Foundation leadership team

Bonus points

• Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb's domain).
• You're still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but it won't be your primary role here).
• Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructure.
• FedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience.
• A field-adjacent past — solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineering.

Base Salary based on level of experience

$285,000 — $320,000 CAD

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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We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you

• 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

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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