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honeycomb.io · 1 month ago

Senior Engineering Manager - Signals Team

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$210K/yr - $235K/yr

Honeycomb is a service defining observability and enhancing developer tools, working with notable companies across various industries. The Senior Engineering Manager for the Signals Team will lead engineering efforts to surface issues and guide customers in complex environments while fostering a high-performing, inclusive team culture.

Cloud Data ServicesData VisualizationDeveloper ToolsDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftware Engineering

No H1B

Responsibilities

Healthy and Inclusive team builder

Prioritize building a respectful, high-achieving, inclusive culture on the team, creating stability, psychological safety, and a high-trust environment that supports autonomy and calculated risk-taking

Build high-performing, sustainable team practices that enable us to deliver value incrementally while balancing trade-offs with scalable architectures

Build nurturing environments where healthy conflict is encouraged and where individuals that comprise a team can make each other better

Strategic thinking that moves mountains

Rely on your systems thinking to collaboratively build short- and long-term plans rooted in data and business context, framing projects and prioritization around impact to the business and value for the users

Communicate your own team’s roadmap and strategy across the organization as well as understand how it intersects with your team’s partners

Lead with a sense of urgency and uphold high standards and expectations for your team by modeling them yourself

Courageous communicator and motivator

Lead by example and proactively foster psychological safety in your team and the wider organization, practicing what you preach when giving and receiving honest, direct, and constructive feedback regularly

Develop strong cross-functional relationships across the company

Make the implicit explicit when it comes to strategy, plans, and the ways we work together

Develops self and others

Get curious about feedback when receiving feedback and seek to understand when giving feedback. Work with those giving feedback to make sure it's specific and actionable

Don't just retain high performers but help develop and grow more high performers. Develop and empower your team to grow professionally & personally and in support of our business goals

Focus on upleveling yourself and others in this fast-changing environment

Think like an owner

Know your business, drive results, and understand company priorities to help your team prioritize and balance investments. Drive technical decision-making and tradeoffs across the team's entire software stack, balancing business impact and long-term system health

Look across the organization and identify holes in ownership and raise them. Identify when work is poorly distributed across teams and work with leadership to resolve the issue. Partner with your management peers to fill gaps and brainstorm creative solutions together that might be outside of the usual guidelines

Foster a belief in your team that we all come to the table with the positive intent towards Honeycomb's overall success. Make decisions that are in the best interest of the company and encouraging others to do the same, thereby welcoming everyone to contribute to Honeycomb's mission

Qualification

Systems thinkingSoftware delivery improvementTeam leadershipBackend experienceAgile methodologiesPsychological safetyDiversityInclusionCollaboration

Required

Experience leading a high-performing team of engineers, including managing and shipping cross-functional or multi-team projects

Excited to support and grow empowered teams through a blend of psychological safety and positive accountability

Collaboration with product and design to understand the larger business context and frame projects and prioritization around impact to the business and users

Familiar with triad-based collaboration and design thinking

Familiar with the Product Management philosophies of people like Marty Cagan and Teresa Torres

Worked in product engineering roles with meaningful backend experience

Understanding of the technology, tools, and challenges enough to rise to at least a Senior Engineer or an equivalent level

Curious about the technologies your team works with and strive to keep your technical knowledge sharp

Understanding the value of building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team

Demonstrated experience shaping and improving software delivery

Understanding methodologies like Agile, XP, and Lean

Comfortable with the pace and trade offs of a growth stage startup