We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1.
What you’ll do in the role
- Bring meaningful observability to web (and then mobile) application developers.
- Bring your own experience, plus ideas from others, back to influence our product
- Create blogs, articles, and videos about why & how to implement great observability in a web app
- Present at conferences and other events, up to 1x/month
- Help our marketers and salespeople speak compellingly to frontend developers
- Embed in the development team for Honeycomb Frontend Observability
- Influence product direction and design decisions
- Change our product, alongside full-time product devs
- Contribute to open source libraries and documentation
- Participate in communities around web and mobile development with OpenTelemetry
- Join some working groups
- Help organize some meetups
- Hold office hours, where anyone can sign up to get your help with implementation problems
What You’ll Bring
- Experience in frontend (web) development, including supporting production apps
- You are familiar with Typescript and at least one JS framework
- You are willing to learn additional frameworks as needed
- You’ve worked in a web app maintained by multiple people or teams
- Familiarity with the web development community (bonus: and mobile)
- You’ve attended some conferences, and you know where we should show up
- You’ve spoken at a few meetups or conferences
- You know people who know about many aspects of frontend development
- Frustration with the current state of frontend monitoring/diagnostics/observability/RUM
- You’ve felt pain while debugging behavior and performance of your web application
- You’re done trying to make everything simple, and ready to work skillfully in complexity
- Talent for conveying complicated concepts clearly
- You like to teach people how to code in a new library or tool, while avoiding its gotchas
- You can concisely explain why and how to do a thing, with concrete examples
- You’ve written blogs or articles that people find helpful
- You like presenting, and can construct a flow of information that people can follow.
- Maybe you make videos already, or else you don’t mind trying it
- An urge to be out in the world
- You can strike up a conversation and learn what a person cares about
- You can travel for about 1 week per month
- You exist on social media, or don’t mind creating those accounts.
- You love helping people.
- Ability to work alone, with a preference for working together
- You can pair some of the time, and work independently other times
- You keep up with the team, but you’re not on Slack all day long
- You can work in ambiguity, while nudging the team toward clarity: you ask questions
- Satisfaction in learning
- You’ll jump into a new language or framework or whatever is needed, and figure it out
- You don’t stay wrong: you eagerly update your understanding when new information arrives
- Bonus: you’ve developed a mobile app, or played around with building one.
What You’ll get when you join the Hive
- Base pay (range) of $165,000- 195,000
- 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
- Compensation benchmarked to San Francisco market – no matter where you live (or move)!
- 401k plan to help you plan for your future
- A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
- 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability insurance and 75% for dependents
- Time to Recharge – In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we provide ~23 days off through out the year. This includes a company wide break at the end of the year, and we honor having at least one three day weekend a month (if there is not already a locally observed holiday that month, we add one!)
- Pick Your Perk – $600 a year to spend on the perks that you care about most
- Work Life Balance and Flexible Schedule options
- The tech you need AND a $500 Home Setup Stipend
- $200 Reimbursement for Cell/Wifi/CoWorking
- $1500+ Annual Professional Development Allowance
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Maven Inclusive Family-Building benefit including unlimited virtual appointments, coaches & counselors, and $10K ‘wallet’ to support adoption, surrogacy, IVF, and egg/sperm freezing
- Modern Health well-being benefit including self guided resources and access to 12 mental health and 8 coaching sessions – at no additional cost to you.
- Semi-annual performance conversations (we call them Review & Rewards conversations) – so you know where you stand, and how you’ll be rewarded for your impact
- Annual compensation review, benchmarking to industry and inflation changes
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