Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Help Honeycomb scale backend systems to support its highest-volume customers
• ▹Build organizational trust through transparent communication, giving and receiving direct and kind feedback
• ▹Work with other backend teams to dive deep into the stack and maximise infrastructure usage
• ▹Be trained, become, and then train others as an Incident Commander
• ▹Help SRE and Honeycomb develop a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture
• ▹Participate in the team's on-call rotation as the EU side of a follow-the-sun rotation
• ▹Help the organization navigate tradeoffs between reliability and other goals and priorities
• ▹Optional: act as an external ambassador through blog posts, conference talks and presentations with support from the DevRel team

Requirements

• ▹Strong experience in AWS and Kubernetes
• ▹Experience performing cost analysis and reduction
• ▹Solid Helm, Terraform and CI/CD experience
• ▹Project management skills
• ▹Software engineering experience
• ▹Experience with Kafka or another high-volume distributed system
• ▹Excellent written and spoken communication skills, tailoring communication for the audience and giving direct feedback
• ▹A curiosity to learn how people and systems work, and willingness to make them partners in initiatives
• ▹Familiarity with observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation) and data-driven decision making
• ▹Comfort operating in ambiguity, with a bias for action and experimentation
• ▹Interest in both the technical and human sides of reliability engineering
• ▹Experience working in geographically distributed teams

Nice to have

• ▹Golang is a plus
• ▹Performance engineering experience is a plus

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Base salary £127,670 – £150,200 GBP based on level of experience
• ▹Generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• ▹Transparent, non-negotiation-based pay levels

About the company

Honeycomb is a leader in observability, working with well-known companies such as HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly and Vanguard. It has closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and was named to Forbes' America's Best Startups in 2022 and 2023. It is a fully distributed company that invests heavily in trust and autonomy for its people.