Senior Engineering Manager (Tenant)

Honeycomb; Canada; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Unlimited PTO

401K retirement plan

Parental leave

Equity grants

Development stipend

Home setup stipend

WiFi/Phone subsidy

Job summary

Honeycomb seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to own the delivery of the Private Cloud product and lead a senior, high‑context team. You will partner with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on PoCs, security reviews, access negotiations, and customer expectations.

You’ll help maintain a tight alignment between SaaS and Private Cloud, drive feedback loops into Honeycomb’s tooling, and ramp the team to scale as the product offering grows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as an engineering manager for a highly technical, senior team.
• Experience hiring and onboarding engineers to scale teams.
• Comfort with AI tooling and understanding where it helps or doesn’t.
• Kubernetes and AWS fluency to review designs and incident reviews.
• You don’t need to be the primary Terraform writer, but comfortable with it.
• Experience shipping and operating software in environments you don’t fully control (on‑prem, private cloud, BYOC).

Responsibilities

• Lead a senior engineering team delivering private cloud initiatives across the org.
• Partner with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on PoCs, security reviews, access negotiations, and procurement.
• Prioritize work with ruthless discipline and clearly explain what was not done and why.
• Hire and onboard the next engineers to scale the product offering.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

On-call reliability

Kubernetes

AWS

Go

Terraform

Kafka

Observability/OpenTelemetry

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

OpenTelemetry

Job description

• Own delivery of Honeycomb Private Cloud — the infrastructure, tooling, and operational processes that let enterprise customers run Honeycomb inside their own cloud environment
• Grow the product — we anticipate significant growth in the next year; help us meet sales goals and build relationships to support it
• Work at the customer boundary — partner with Field Engineering, Support, and Sales on PoCs, security reviews, access negotiations, and contract asks, and help the team know when to take feedback and when to help us show the customer what good looks like
• Lead across the org — Private Cloud depends on many engineering teams across the org. We maintain a tight drift between SaaS and Private Cloud, and this role will need to be able to understand and prioritize work that touches all parts of our engineering org
• Feedback loops for developers. We learn a lot about Honeycomb as a product while building Honeycomb. Ensure that we push Private-Cloud-inspired tooling back into our SaaS infrastructure so each side continues to make the other better
• Build the team — grow and develop a small, tenured, senior, very high-context team; remove the single points of failure that come with that; hire and onboard the next engineers to scale the team as the product offering scales

Benefits

• 100% covered medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, disability, and more
• Unlimited PTO, synchronous company break, paid sabbatical, and expressed minimum for time to recharge
• 401K retirement plans and fully paid life insurance
• Up to 16 weeks paid leave regardless of path to parenthood; flexible hours for returning parents and caregivers
• $10K to cover gaps in insurance, in support of adoption, surrogacy, preservation, and family-planning costs
• $600 per year to spend on the perks you care for most
• A stake in our success
• Generous new hire equity, and refresh grants
• Annual $1,500 development stipend; funding for cognitive coaching; and a focus on career pathing
• $500 new hire home setup stipend and $200/mo for wifi, phone and co-working

3+ years as an Engineering manager for a highly technical, senior teamHiring and onboarding engineers into a domain with a steep rampYou’ve managed or led a team that carried a real production on-call rotation, and you treat operational health as a core requirementComfort with AI tooling, and a point of view on where it helps and where it doesn’tEnough 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 TerraformComfort being customer-facing with enterprise buyers: security questionnaires, access models, procurement, escalationsRuthless prioritization on a small team with an enormous surface area — you can name what you decided not to do, and whyYou have a solid track record as an engineer, influencing without authority, and leaving things better than you found themComfort being an escalation point for engineering emergencies as part of the Foundation leadership teamExperience 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 roadmapYou’re still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but it won’t be your primary role here)Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this timeFamiliarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb’s domain)Background in Go, Terraform, Kafka, and large-scale data infrastructureA field-adjacent past — solutions architecture, consulting, or deployment engineeringFedRAMP, GovCloud, or regulated-industry compliance experience