Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Honeycomb's Storage team as an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager and lead a high-performing team responsible for the company's data storage systems. You will build and mentor your team, focusing on creating a respectful and inclusive culture. The role requires strategic thinking, strong communication, and cross-functional collaboration. You'll work on large-scale projects, prioritize impact, and foster psychological safety. Honeycomb offers a remote-first work environment and a competitive compensation and benefits package, including generous equity, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and a development allowance.

Requirements

• Have some experience leading a high-performing team of engineers, including managing senior engineers, partnering across multiple business functions, and shipping multi-team projects
• Default to supporting and growing empowered teams through a blend of psychological safety and positive accountability
• Understand the value of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team and bring that lens to your work as a leader in hiring, team culture, and beyond
• Have experience working with storage systems, an ability to reason through trade-offs of cost, speed, and complexity, and can understand basic strategies for approaching diagnosing issues
• Understand the importance of data integrity for different types of data and have exercised a data disaster recovery plan
• Be comfortable with the pace and trade-offs of a growth-stage startup
• Know how to take care of yourself and your team, get your work done without working around the clock, prioritize ruthlessly, be able to tolerate a little uncertainty and sometimes wear different hats
• Understand the importance of tight feedback loops across the software development lifecycle
• Be curious about how to improve your tools for internal users and to reduce toil for your own team
• Have a proven track record of working with highly technical product managers and can share experiences of where you’ve had to do some of the product discovery and feedback work yourself

Responsibilities

• Build high-performing, sustainable team practices that enable us to deliver value incrementally while balancing trade-offs with scalable architectures
• Craft resilient teams that can keep going while key team members are on PTO. Actively identify potential knowledge silos or bottlenecks and ensure there’s a plan in place to mitigate the risk
• Prioritize building a respectful, high-achieving, inclusive culture on the team. This team includes many leaders, who all bring a different set of experiences and expertise to the table. You’ll use your skills to help them navigate hard conversations and set norms for the team to follow around conflict
• Frame 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
• Ensure large hairy projects that cross domains, such as database upgrades, API changes, or re-architecture plans
• Lead by example and proactively foster psychological safety in your team and the wider organization
• Develop strong cross-functional relationships across the company
• Take a blameless approach to management and organizational retrospectives to improve
• Mentor, coach, or sponsor more junior managers and engineers by sharing your favorite practices, allowing them to shadow your processes, and providing them with both positive and constructive feedback
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Base pay (range) of $195,000 - $210,000 USD, CAD $256,716 - CAD $288,446 (Manager); $215,000 to $235,000 USD, CAD $295,313 - CAD $322,784 (Senior Manager)
• 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 - In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we have a company wide break at the end of the year
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance