About Honeycomb
What is Honeycomb?
Honeycomb is an observability platform for engineering teams. Its stated mission is to "Help engineering teams understand their software in production" — or, as the company frames it now, "We help engineering teams of humans and agents follow their code to production." The product spans distributed tracing, log analytics, metrics, frontend observability, SLOs and OpenTelemetry ingestion, with newer work aimed at AI agents. The origin story is deliberately unglamorous: Honeycomb "was founded by an ops engineer and a developer who had the same problem and couldn't agree on whose fault it was." The company says it was "built 10 years ago from first principles"; its listings note it has "closed Series D funding" and "scaled past the 200-person mark."
Where will I work?
Wherever you already are. Honeycomb is unambiguous: "Remote is here to stay. You're not going to see a 'back to office' email from us." The careers page headline reads "Impact-driven. Human-first. Totally remote," and job descriptions repeat that "We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most." Openings are advertised across the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. Distance is managed deliberately: "Communication is remote-friendly and regular offsites keep you connected to your colleagues," backed by regular virtual All Hands and Demo Days.
What is the Honeycomb team like?
Honeycomb publishes five values, several about how people treat each other rather than how fast they ship. "We hire adults" is expanded as "Pay attention to your mind and body so you can give and get help. All of us wobble, and being transparent about that means we can support each other." The others are "Fast and close to right is better than perfect", "Everything is an experiment", "Feedback is a muscle" and "Act with autonomy and ownership." The company also reserves "a board seat for a frontline employee."
Work-Life Balance
Honeycomb publishes no four-day week, compressed schedule or reduced-hours policy — nothing on its site or job board mentions one. Its time-off wording is worth reading closely, because the company states it two ways. The careers page says "Flexible PTO, expressed minimum for taking time off" — an open policy with a stated floor, which answers the usual criticism that open holiday quietly discourages people from booking any. Its own job listings describe the same benefit as "Time to recharge with unlimited PTO." Parental leave runs to "Up to 16 weeks of paid leave, regardless of path to parenthood", alongside "Funds to support adoption, surrogacy, IVF egg freezing" and "Resources for LGBTQ and non-birthing parents." Pay is set "based on the San Francisco market, no matter where you live (or move)."
Perks and Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, with an expressed minimum for taking it
- 100% employer-covered medical, dental and vision
- Up to 16 weeks paid leave, any path to parenthood
- Funds for adoption, surrogacy and IVF egg freezing
- Generous equity, employee-friendly stock option program
- Pay set by transparent levels, independent of location
- 401K retirement planning
- Fully paid life insurance
- Work-from-anywhere expensing, San Francisco-market pay
- Home workspace setup stipend
- Co-working and internet stipend
- Annual development allowance
- Regular offsites for the distributed team