Senior Site Reliability Engineer

honeycomb.io
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Leadership","Feedback"]

Join Honeycomb’s distributed SRE team to scale high-volume backend systems, drive reliability across AWS and Kubernetes, and shape cross-Atlantic engineering culture. You’ll own incident response, collaborate with backend teams, optimize infrastructure, and help evolve observability practices in a fast-growing, remote-first company.

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honeycomb.io
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2 months ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Join Honeycomb’s distributed SRE team to scale high-volume backend systems, drive reliability across AWS and Kubernetes, and shape cross-Atlantic engineering culture. You’ll own incident response, collaborate with backend teams, optimize infrastructure, and help evolve observability practices in a fast-growing, remote-first company.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Help Honeycomb scale our backend systems to support our 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 our stack to make sure we’re getting the most out of our infrastructure.
  • •Be trained, become, and then train others as an Incident Commander.
  • •Help SRE and Honeycomb develop a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveEquityHome OfficeInternet StipendParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience in AWS and Kubernetes.
  • •Experience with Kafka or another high-volume distributed system.
  • •Solid Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD experience.
  • •Project management skills.
  • •Software engineering experience (Golang is a plus).
Experience:SREObservabilityDistributed systemsCloud
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingLeadershipFeedback
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSKubernetesHelmTerraformCI/CDKafkaGolang

Company Brief

honeycomb.io
Provides a cloud-based observability platform that helps engineering teams debug, explore, and understand production systems by ingesting high-cardinality event data for fast querying and real-time analysis.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2016
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