Senior Software Engineer II – Agentic Intelligence

Honeycomb.io

Senior Software Engineer II building high-performance observability tools at Honeycomb. Design and deliver production-grade AI agents for real-time data analysis and system understanding.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $183,340 - $206,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AI and agent engineering, with a focus on building production-grade systems that leverage high-cardinality data stores. Capable of end-to-end ownership of agent development, from prototyping to deployment, while maintaining a strong understanding of observability and developer tools.

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AI And Agent Engineering ExperienceEnd-To-End OwnershipAgent Architecture DepthProduct JudgmentObservability Background

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Hard Skills

LLM-Based SystemsAgent DesignHigh-Cardinality Data StorePrototype DevelopmentEval Frameworks

Soft Skills

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Tools & Technologies

Agent ToolingPrompt Engineering

Industry Keywords

ObservabilityDeveloper Tools

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and deliver production-grade agents. Build agents that investigate, reason, and act on live observability data inside Canvas. These agents must be trustworthy to engineers in high pressure situations, including mid-incident. Take one from rough first version to something that holds up under production traffic.
Own the agent work; support the whole product. Scope, build, ship, and maintain the agents including the evals that tell you whether they got better or are just different. This role is agent-focused and also includes some fullstack development.
Build agents only Honeycomb can build. Use a data store that returns high-cardinality queries in seconds to reason over signal a conventional backend can't serve at this fidelity correlating across services, drilling into a single trace, comparing before and after a deploy.
Extend the surface, and decide what's next. Ship new capability into Canvas, the MCP server, and Canvas Skills memory, spatial awareness, a faster Bedrock loop and make the case for what comes after with working code. Distinguish hype from signal in a field with plenty of both.
Define what "good" means for agents here. Set the bar: measurable against real evals, maintainable, and honest about their limits.

Requirements

What you’ll need

AI and agent engineering experience. You've shipped LLM-based systems people relied on in production not demos, not fine-tuned models in a research context. You know where agent systems break and how to design around it.
End-to-end ownership. On a small team there's no handoff queue. You can take something from rough prototype to production-grade without needing someone behind you to do the durable engineering.
Current judgment, not just past experience. You have informed opinions about what's shifted in agent design in the last six to twelve months that would change how you'd build today.
Agent architecture depth. You understand how a fast, high-cardinality data store changes what an agent can reason about, and how to design for that.
Product judgment. You can look at what the agent layer does today and see what it should do next and make that case with a prototype, not a deck.
Observability or developer-tools background. Engineers are your users; you'll ramp faster with fluency in that world, and the work is better.
Familiarity with eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG, and prompt engineering.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 with unlimited PTO
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...