Drimva

Honeycomb

Senior Software Engineer II - Storage

$183K–$206K

Remote - United States +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026

Location
Remote - United States
Canada - Remote
Visa sponsorship
Cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers.

About the job

Designs and operates Honeycomb’s storage and querying infrastructure, improving its performance, reliability, and scalability.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement storage and query infrastructure improvements, including query performance and the Retriever service.
  • Own projects from design through production support, coordinating with product and engineering partners and delivering measurable impact.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, define team KPIs and SLOs, and reduce operational toil.

What they ask for

  • Expertise writing Go and experience with high-throughput or complex systems.
  • Technical leadership designing patterns and guidelines that improve performance and reliability.
  • Ability to scope and deliver complex projects and debug difficult production issues.
  • Strength in mentorship, collaboration, and sharing knowledge beyond the team.

Nice to have

  • Database engineering experience.
  • Comfort with Kubernetes.

Pay

$183,340 — $206,000 USD base salary

Tools

Go, Kubernetes

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)