Senior Developer Relations Advocate (Front End Focused)

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