Little more about the team:
The Engineering Enablement team is all about equipping Honeycomb to innovate quickly and safely. It gives engineers fast, reliable feedback loops at every stage of the software development lifecycle through cohesive, forward-thinking tooling and platform — so that as our organization scales and our product evolves, both human developers and AI agents can keep shipping with confidence.
Our biggest current bet is Autobots, a centralized platform of autonomous agents that participate reliably, safely, and securely in Honeycomb's engineering workflows. The premise is that trust is the binding constraint: agents that fail visibly and earn trust on small work get invited into bigger work, and every run produces telemetry that compounds the platform's capability over time. Alongside Autobots, the team owns the foundations that make this possible: CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, RWX, Namespace, GitHub Actions), testing health in JS and Go, shared dependency management, developer tooling (linters, TypeScript, build/run, internal OTel adoption, feature flags), and web performance. The Engineering Enablement team is proactively re-enforcing and automating Honeycomb’s own curiosity loop for both humans and agents.
- Own the developer feedback loops — the CI/CD, testing, dependency management, and tooling that let the whole org ship faster and more safely.
- Lead AI-partnered development — incubate what the next chapter of AI-assisted engineering looks like at Honeycomb, for both human engineers and agents, and how observability plays into it.
- Prove the ROI — define and track the developer-productivity and satisfaction metrics that give leadership confidence in the team's impact.
- Lead change across the org — bring engineers inside and outside your team along, helping them welcome change rather than resist it.
- Grow the team — support engineers and your manager community First Team through 1:1s, career development, and feedback loops.
- Sustained, multi-year experience leading an engineering enablement / developer-experience team — enough tenure in prior roles to have steered large-scale change over time.
- Fluency in CI/CD.
- A track record of defining and tracking developer-productivity / ROI metrics — you can stand up the metrics program, not just consume it.
- Cross-org change leadership — ideally having led an organization through a major workflow change or AI rollout.
- Real depth with AI tooling.
- The ability to distinguish good from bad AI usage, and to articulate your own AI philosophy.
- Familiarity with observability / OpenTelemetry (Honeycomb's domain).
- Experience running internal platform or tooling as a "product," with internal engineers as your customers.
Bonus points
- You're still hands-on and enjoy contributing to and reviewing code (welcome, but it won't be your primary role here).
- You've built your own AI-driven projects and tools.
What you'll get when you join the Hive:
- 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 with unlimited PTO
- A distributed-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...
- All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address
- We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.
- Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
- Social security or tax identification numbers
- Credit card numbers
- Bank account information
Skills Required
- Sustained, multi-year experience leading an engineering enablement or developer-experience team
- Fluency in CI/CD
- Track record of defining and tracking developer-productivity / ROI metrics
- Cross-organizational change leadership, including major workflow or AI rollouts
- Real depth with AI tooling and ability to articulate an AI philosophy
- Familiarity with observability and OpenTelemetry
- Experience running internal platform or tooling as a product with engineers as customers
- Hands-on coding and code review experience
- Experience building AI-driven projects or tools
What We Do
Honeycomb is fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments. Within seconds, find patterns and outliers across billions of rows of data to definitively solve problems. Learn more about us here: https://www.honeycomb.io/about/
Why Work With Us
We believe Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future. Within the industry, we are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to build a product that raises our industry’s expectations of what our tools can do for us. Inside Honeycomb, we care deeply about our culture, transparency, and inclusion.
