Honeycomb is building the future of observability for modern software, and their SDKs are how developers connect their code to Honeycomb's powerful insights. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and maintain these SDKs across multiple platforms.
Requirements
- You have strong software engineering experience (typically 5+ years), with at least a few years building mobile applications, SDKs, developer tools, or libraries used by other engineers.
- You’re comfortable working in open source communities — reviewing pull requests, engaging with contributors, and maintaining high-quality public codebases.
- Experience with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, tracing, metrics, logs).
- You’ve used or built mobile SDKs or frameworks (Android, iOS, or cross-platform).
- You have experience with one or more of Flutter, Kotlin, Swift, or TypeScript.
- Prior contributions to SDKs used by large developer communities.
- Familiarity with backend observability pipelines or instrumentation standards.
Responsibilities
- Help design, build, and maintain Honeycomb SDKs across multiple platforms (web, mobile).
- Collaborate closely with the OpenTelemetry community and other open source projects.
- Define and evolve SDK architecture and API design with a focus on usability and long-term maintainability.
- Partner with internal teams to ensure instrumentation is reliable, efficient, and easy to integrate.
- Write clear, developer-friendly documentation and examples.
- Review code, mentor peers, and help foster a healthy open source culture at Honeycomb.
Other
- You’re passionate about making developers’ lives better through thoughtful API design and clear documentation.
- You’re comfortable balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term maintainability.
- Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time.
- Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
- The opportunity to shape the SDK strategy for a category-defining observability company.
