Staff Solution Architect

2 weeks, 6 days ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

Description

  • Drive technical strategy on Honeycomb’s largest and most complex deals in partnership with Strategic AEs and Sales Leadership.
  • Lead discovery, solution design, and executive conversations that connect the platform to engineering and business priorities.
  • Own the technical win by defining success criteria, guiding POCs, running competitive bake-offs, and building stakeholder conviction.
  • Advise engineering leaders and executives at global enterprises on AI-era observability, modern operations, and software delivery.
  • Translate complex customer environments into clear architectures and solution narratives for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Use AI tools effectively while maintaining accuracy and reliability through human review.
  • Instrument applications, troubleshoot technical issues, and help customers validate outcomes in real environments.
  • Create scalable technical content, reusable demos, repeatable architectures, and thought leadership assets.
  • Deliver demos, workshops, and presentations that influence customer decisions.
  • Collaborate across Sales, Product, Marketing, Field Engineering, and DevRel to improve go-to-market execution and bring field feedback back into the company.
  • Mentor peers and model strong judgment, autonomy, and leadership.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of pre-sales, solution architecture, or customer-facing technical experience in B2B SaaS, ideally with strategic or enterprise accounts.
  • Proven success winning complex, high-value deals with multiple technical stakeholders and sophisticated buying committees.
  • Experience selling to developer, platform, SRE, or engineering-led organizations.
  • Executive presence with the ability to tailor communication from hands-on practitioners to the C-suite.
  • Strong solutioning ability, including whiteboarding clearly, simplifying complexity, and building technical strategies for ambiguous situations.
  • Hands-on fluency with modern cloud environments, CSPs, containers, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and API-driven architectures.
  • Working knowledge of observability, distributed tracing, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Comfort navigating code and implementation details across languages and frameworks to support instrumentation and validation.
  • Experience owning complex POCs and evaluations, including success criteria, risk management, and disciplined execution.
  • Collaborative cross-functional experience influencing Product, Engineering, and GTM teams.
  • Perspective on the future of observability, developer tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Mentorship and growth mindset with a focus on creating reusable assets and helping others improve.
  • Familiarity with MEDDPICC or Command of the Message is a plus.
  • Willingness to travel about 20% for customer engagements, field events, and internal collaboration.
  • Must be able to verify identity and eligibility to work; visa transfers are not currently sponsored or supported.

Benefits

  • On-target earnings of $200,000 to $236,000 USD based on level of experience, including base and commission.
  • Generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
  • Transparent pay structure based on experience rather than negotiation.
  • 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, regardless of path to parenthood.
  • Annual development allowance.

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