Senior Software Engineer I – Frontend Observability – Mobile/SDK

November 20

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Honeycomb.io

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SaaS • Enterprise • Artificial Intelligence

Honeycomb. io is an observability platform designed to provide comprehensive insights into application performance. It unifies logs, metrics, and traces into a single data type, allowing engineers to quickly diagnose and resolve issues. Honeycomb. io offers features like distributed tracing, anomaly detection, and service maps to help teams enhance system visibility and operational efficiency. It integrates with popular cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes, and supports technologies such as OpenTelemetry. Honeycomb. io aims to enable engineering teams to deploy confidently, reduce incident response times, and improve overall productivity.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• Help design, build, and maintain Honeycomb SDKs across multiple platforms (web, mobile). • Collaborate closely with the OpenTelemetry community and other open source projects. • Define and evolve SDK architecture and API design with a focus on usability and long-term maintainability. • Partner with internal teams to ensure instrumentation is reliable, efficient, and easy to integrate. • Write clear, developer-friendly documentation and examples. • Review code, mentor peers, and help foster a healthy open source culture at Honeycomb.

🎯 Requirements

• You have strong software engineering experience (typically 5+ years), with at least a few years building mobile applications, SDKs, developer tools, or libraries used by other engineers. • You’re comfortable working in open source communities — reviewing pull requests, engaging with contributors, and maintaining high-quality public codebases. • Experience with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, tracing, metrics, logs). • You’re passionate about making developers’ lives better through thoughtful API design and clear documentation. • You’re comfortable balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability. • Bonus points: • You’ve used or built mobile SDKs or frameworks (Android, iOS, or cross-platform). • You have experience with one or more of Flutter, Kotlin, Swift, or TypeScript. • Prior contributions to SDKs used by large developer communities. • Familiarity with backend observability pipelines or instrumentation standards.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical • A remote-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...