Senior Software Engineer, AI Observability (Remote, Equity)

honeycomb; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully distributed

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Home office stipend

Internet support

Parental leave

Development allowance

Job summary

Honeycomb is hiring for a full-stack role focused on observability features for AI agents in production. You will own features end-to-end, from data ingestion to in-product visuals, with a focus on token use, cost, errors, and behavior signals.

Join a distributed team and collaborate with product and design to deliver customer-centric workflows. A strong background in Go, Python, TypeScript, and React is expected, with on-call rotation experience beneficial.

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience with feature ownership from idea to delivery.
• Experience shipping customer-facing SaaS product features.
• Full-stack capability: Go and/or Python backend; TypeScript/React frontend.
• Strong collaboration with product managers and designers.
• Hands-on use of AI tools in engineering work.
• On-call rotation experience and comfort with changing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI observability features across the pipeline, from data ingestion to in-product visuals.
• Design and evolve data models and infrastructure for observing agents and systems.
• Build analyses and surfaces for token use, cost, errors, and unusual behavior.
• Collaborate with product and design to shape clear customer workflows.
• Help customers explore agent behavior across conversations and workloads.
• Share lessons from experiments and iterations to improve features.

Skills

Backend Go

Backend Python

Frontend TypeScript

React

SaaS features

On-call experience

AI tooling in engineering

Collaboration

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Honeycomb is hiring for a full-stack role focused on observability features for AI agents in production. You will own features end-to-end, from data ingestion to in-product visuals, with a focus on token use, cost, errors, and behavior signals.

Join a distributed team and collaborate with product and design to deliver customer-centric workflows. A strong background in Go, Python, TypeScript, and React is expected, with on-call rotation experience beneficial.