Senior Software Engineer II - Agentic Intelligence
United States
Honeycomb is a service defining observability and enhancing developer tools, working with notable companies across various industries. The Senior Software Engineer II will focus on developing AI agents for observability data, ensuring they are reliable in high-pressure situations and capable of evolving with the product.Responsibilities: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 trafficOwn 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 developmentBuild 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 deployExtend 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 bothDefine what 'good' means for agents here. Set the bar: measurable against real evals, maintainable, and honest about their limitsRequirements: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 itEnd-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 engineeringCurrent 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 todayAgent architecture depth. You understand how a fast, high-cardinality data store changes what an agent can reason about, and how to design for thatProduct 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 deckObservability or developer-tools background. Engineers are your users; you'll ramp faster with fluency in that world, and the work is betterFamiliarity with eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG, and prompt engineering
