Honeycomb
honeycomb.io
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AI Evaluation & Observability
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Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
26
+15 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
DCVC, Headline
Momentum
38/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 25
First role in Canada Senior Software Engineer II - Agentic Intelligence
Aug 26
First role in Ireland Senior Enterprise Account Executive
Jul 24
First executive search Senior Director, Sales- West
Jun 17
Launched Honeycomb Releases Second Edition of Bestseller Observability Engineering to Redefine the Practice for an AI World · Honeycomb
Sep 11, 2025
Launched Honeycomb Introduces the Developer Interface of the Future with AI-Native Observability Suite · PRNewswire
Jun 11, 2025
On the Hacker News front page It's the end of observability as we know it (and I feel fine) · 301 points
Mar 12, 2024
Partnership Focused Labs and Honeycomb.io Announce Strategic Partnership to Propel Modernization and Observability Practices · PRNewswire
Jul 14, 2023
On the Hacker News front page On Becoming a VP of Engineering · 286 points
May 27, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Hard stuff when building products with LLMs · 249 points
Nov 28, 2021
On the Hacker News front page I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore · 230 points
Sep 26, 2018
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Honeycomb turned an outage into an interactive sandbox
Jan 26, 2017
On the Hacker News front page Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure · 239 points
2016
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Insight Partners 
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How Honeycomb hires
Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
46 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%
Honeycomb scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 46 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Honeycomb is an observability software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, offering a platform for distributed tracing, log analytics, time series metrics, frontend observability, telemetry pipelines and LLM observability for engineering teams. Founded in 2016 by Christine Yao and Charity Majors, it has raised venture funding through a Series D, grown past 200 employees and counts companies such as Slack, Intercom and Dropbox among its users. It hires software engineers for storage, LLM observability and agentic features, enterprise and strategic account executives, sales development reps, sales directors, technical recruiters and financial analysts.
News
How 'Honeycomb' Became a No. 1 Hit 69 Years Ago: Jimmie Rodgers' Success Story
It was written by Bob Merrill.
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'Honeycomb: The World Beyond' Comes To PS5, Xbox Series XS And PC in September, Demo Later This Month - Trailer
Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a first-person, open-world, survival-sandbox game where players are able to become true bioengineers.
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Honeycomb: The World Beyond Is Coming Out on PC and Consoles Next Month
Sandbox survival game Honeycomb: The World Beyond is officially launching on September 8 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series XS.
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Honeycomb: The World Beyond Launches September 6 for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Honeycomb over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
52
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Go33%
JavaScript23%
TypeScript19%
SQL15%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry27%
React.js17%
LangChain6%
Commander.js4%
Cloud & platforms
TheHive67%
Kubernetes27%
AWS10%
Apache Kafka8%
AI & ML
LLM31%
Claude2%
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Full Honeycomb tech stack
44 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$110k – $500k
Open positions
16
11
Jobs
Junior
9.1%
Middle
9.1%
Senior
72.7%
Staff
9.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $180k | $180k |
| Middle | 1 | $148k | $148k |
| Senior | 8 | $206k | $110k – $500k |
| Staff | 1 | $265k | $265k |
Highest paying role
Senior Enterprise Account Executive
$500k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Honeycomb
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
25
17 opened / 40 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
46 days
faster than 29% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/19/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
26% ▼
AI/ML
21% ▲
Backend
21% ▼
Leadership
9% ▲
Finance
7%
Operations
7% ▲
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United Kingdom
Oct 2026
Added FedRAMP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack
Oct 2026
Added LLM Evaluation to stack
Oct 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack
Oct 2026
Added CI/CD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added Aider to stack
Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff
Jobs
≈ $61k – $139k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • 3+ years exp • Canada
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
$160k – $180k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • United States
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
≈ $92k – $176k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Canada
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
$183k – $206k per year • Remote (United States) • United States
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
LLM
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
OpenTelemetry
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
≈ $89k – $182k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • 3+ years exp • Canada
Go
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
OpenTelemetry
AWS
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
FedRAMP
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
$208k – $234k per year • Remote (United States) • 3+ years exp • United States
Go
Apache Kafka
DevOps
Terraform
OpenTelemetry
AWS
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
FedRAMP
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
≈ $101k – $183k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Canada
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
≈ $182k – $329k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United States) • United States
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
≈ $89k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Canada
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
DevOps
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
SLI/SLO/SLA
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
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≈ $90k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Canada) • Canada
Go
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
$183k – $206k per year • Remote (United States) • United States
Go
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply
$183k – $206k per year • Remote (United States) • United States
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
DevOps
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
SLI/SLO/SLA
Cybersecurity
TheHive
Management
Slack
Gmail
Apply