Jobs / Honeycomb.io
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Honeycomb.io · United Kingdom · Remote
United Kingdom127,670-150,200 GBP/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
127,670-150,200 GBP/yearly
Location
United Kingdom · Remote
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time.
Job summary
Honeycomb is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale backend systems for high-volume customers and improve reliability. This role involves working with various technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, and Kafka, and participating in an on-call rotation. The ideal candidate will contribute to a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture and navigate tradeoffs between reliability and other organizational goals.
Benefits
Equity with employee-friendly stock programUnlimited PTOHome office stipendCo-working stipendInternet stipendFull benefits coverage for employeesAdditional coverage for dependentsUp to 16 weeks of paid parental leaveAnnual development allowance
Qualifications
- Strong experience in AWS
- Strong experience in Kubernetes
- Experience performing cost analysis and reduction
- Solid Helm experience
- Solid Terraform experience
- Solid CI/CD experience
- Project management skills
- Software engineering experience
- Experience with Golang (plus)
- Experience with performance engineering (plus)
- Experience with Kafka or other high-volume distributed systems
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent spoken communication skills
- Ability to tailor communication for audience
- Ability to give direct feedback
- Curiosity to learn how people and systems work
- Willingness to make people and systems partners in initiatives
- Familiarity with observability concepts (SLOs, instrumentation)
- Familiarity with data-driven decision making
- Comfort operating in ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Scale backend systems to support high-volume customers
- Build organizational trust through transparent communication
- Give and receive direct and kind feedback
- Work with backend teams to optimize infrastructure utilization
- Train and be trained as an Incident Commander
- Develop a healthy cross-Atlantic engineering culture
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation (EU side of follow-the-sun)
- Navigate tradeoffs between reliability and organizational goals
- Act as an external ambassador through blog posts, conference talks, and presentations (optional)
Skills
AmbassadorAWSGoHelmHiveHoneycombKafkaKubernetesSlackTerraform
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Relocation
No