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Staff Field Reliability Engineer

3 weeks, 1 day ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
DevOps and Infrastructure
Ansible AWS Chef EC2 Go Helm Honeycomb Java Kubernetes .NET Node.js OpenTelemetry Python Serverless Terraform TypeScript
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Honeycomb.io

Honeycomb.io

Honeycomb.io provides a comprehensive observability platform designed for engineers to effectively debug and monitor distributed services, including microservices and serverless applications, facilitating collaborative problem-solving and enhancing ove...

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2016
$149M raised
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Description

  • Define architecture and operational standards for Refinery as a Service and Honeycomb Private Cloud across multiple AWS accounts and regions.
  • Architect Terraform modules, Helm charts, and deployment automation for the FRE team.
  • Own capacity planning, scaling strategy, upgrade sequencing, and cost optimization for managed infrastructure.
  • Serve as the final technical escalation point for novel, high-stakes customer issues.
  • Resolve deep infrastructure and observability problems across distributed systems, Kubernetes, AWS networking, and service meshes.
  • Partner with customer SRE, platform, and engineering leaders on escalations and architecture redesigns.
  • Provide senior incident command for managed services and build playbooks and diagnostic tooling for other engineers.
  • Shape Honeycomb’s open source strategy in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and contribute to Refinery and the Honeycomb Collector Distro.
  • Lead architecture reviews, SLO workshops, instrumentation deep-dives, and high-stakes POCs and pilots.
  • Build internal tools and UIs, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional alignment across field, product, support, and engineering.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience in engineering, SRE, infrastructure, DevOps, or equivalent with staff-level scope and impact.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, with EKS strongly preferred.
  • Strong AWS expertise across EC2, EKS, ECS, ALB/NLB, VPC, PrivateLink, IAM, S3, and Route53.
  • Experience with multi-account architecture design, service quotas, and cost optimization.
  • A track record of senior incident command and ownership of incident response and postmortem improvements.
  • Infrastructure as Code mastery with Terraform, Helm, Chef, or Ansible.
  • Deep observability expertise including logging, tracing, metrics, SLOs/SLIs, and instrumentation lifecycle standards.
  • Strong command of OpenTelemetry or equivalent, including community contribution and leadership.
  • Proficiency in at least two of Go, Python, Java, TypeScript/Node.js, or .NET.
  • Excellent executive communication skills and the ability to lead in ambiguous, high-pressure situations.
  • Background in customer-facing engineering functions such as solutions architecture, field engineering, or technical consulting (nice to have).
  • Public recognition or leadership in the CNCF/OpenTelemetry ecosystem, such as maintainer status, SIG leadership, or speaking (nice to have).
  • Experience operating telemetry pipelines, managed SaaS deployments, private cloud offerings, or multi-tenant infrastructure (nice to have).
  • Prior experience at an observability, monitoring, or developer tools vendor (nice to have).

Benefits

  • On-target earnings of $200,000-$240,000 USD based on level of experience (base + commission).
  • Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
  • Transparent pay based on levels relative to experience.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Distributed-first, remote-friendly work culture.
  • 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.
  • Annual development allowance.

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