Own the technical sales motion on a portfolio of mid-market to enterprise accounts across AMER, partnering closely with sales to drive deals forward.
Lead discovery, solution design, and technical conversations that connect Honeycomb’s platform to real engineering and business priorities, from first call through close.
Drive the technical win. Define success criteria, run POCs, navigate competitive evaluations, and build stakeholder confidence with engineering teams and technical buyers.
Engage with engineering leaders, platform teams, and SRE organizations on observability best practices and AI-era workflows.
Translate complex customer environments into clear architectures and solution narratives that resonate with both hands-on practitioners and technical decision-makers.
Leverage AI tools to work efficiently and creatively while maintaining accuracy and reliability. Human-in-the-loop is a real thing!
Get hands-on when it matters. Instrument applications, troubleshoot technical blockers, and help customers prove outcomes in real environments.
Contribute to the team’s technical library: demos, solution frameworks, reference architectures, and repeatable assets that make the whole team more effective.
Deliver demos, workshops, and technical presentations that create conviction.
Collaborate across Sales, Product, Marketing, Field Engineering, and DevRel to strengthen the go-to-market motion and improve how we show up for customers.
Bring customer and field signals back into the company. Contribute to roadmap conversations and help shape how we demo and position the product.
Share what you know. Help onboard newer team members, document what works, and contribute to a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Requirements

5+ years of pre-sales, solution architecture, or customer-facing technical experience in B2B SaaS with a highly technical ICP, with a focus on enterprise or mid-market accounts.
A consistent track record of winning competitive, multi-stakeholder deals with technical buyers and navigating complex evaluation processes.
Experience selling into developer, platform, SRE, or engineering-led organizations , you earn technical credibility quickly and know how to bridge technical depth with business value.
Strong executive presence with the ability to tailor your message from hands-on engineers to VP-level decision-makers.
Sharp solutioning skills: you whiteboard clearly, simplify complexity, and craft compelling technical strategies even in ambiguous situations.
Hands-on fluency across modern cloud environments, CSPs, containers, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and API-driven architectures.
Solid working knowledge of observability, distributed tracing, and OpenTelemetry. You understand how modern teams instrument, troubleshoot, and optimize complex systems.
Comfort navigating code and implementation details across common languages and frameworks , enough to guide instrumentation and validate technical approaches with customers.
Strong instincts for unblocking deals, reframing challenges, and finding practical paths forward when things get ambiguous.
Experience owning POCs and technical evaluations end-to-end: defining success criteria, managing risk, and driving to a clear outcome.
A collaborative, cross-functional mindset with experience working alongside Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to improve how we go to market.
A point of view on where observability, developer tooling, and AI-assisted workflows are headed , and genuine enthusiasm for helping customers modernize.
A growth and contribution mindset: you share what you know, build reusable assets, and make the people around you better.
Familiarity with MEDDPICC or Command of the Message is a plus.
Willingness to travel ∼20% for customer engagements, field events, and internal collaboration.

Benefits

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 - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
Annual development allowance
And much more...

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architecturetechnical salesobservabilitydistributed tracingOpenTelemetrycloud environmentscontainersKubernetesAPI-driven architecturesPOC management

Soft Skills

executive presencesolutioning skillscollaborative mindsetcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer engagementmentorshipadaptabilitystrategic thinkingcontinuous improvement