Staff Solution Architect

Little more about the team:

The Solution Architecture team sits at the intersection of technology, customer advocacy, and revenue, working Honeycomb's most strategic opportunities. We partner with world-class engineering organizations to solve complex observability challenges and change how teams build and operate software. This is a team of hands-on technical leaders who want to shape major customer decisions, influence go-to-market strategy, and redefine what great technical selling looks like.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Drive technical strategy on Honeycomb's largest, most complex deals, partnering with Strategic AEs and Sales Leadership across the region.
• Lead discovery, solution design, and executive conversations that connect Honeycomb's platform to real engineering and business priorities.
• Own the technical win. Shape the success criteria, guide the POCs, run competitive bake-offs, and build stakeholder conviction from first call to close.
• Advise engineering leaders and executives at global enterprises on AI-era observability, modern operations, and how great teams build and run software.
• Turn complex customer environments into clear architectures and solution narratives that land with both developers and decision-makers.
• Leverage AI tools and get efficient and creative while maintaining accuracy and reliability. Human-in-the-loop is a real thing!
• Get hands-on when it matters. Instrument apps, unblock technical issues, and help customers prove outcomes in real environments. 
• Build things that scale: technical content, reusable demos, repeatable architectures, and bring thought leadership that makes the whole team better.
• Deliver demos, workshops, and presentations that move people, not just inform them.
• Work across Sales, Product, Marketing, Field Engineering, and DevRel to sharpen the go-to-market motion and improve how we show up for customers.
• Bring field signals back into the company. Help shape the product direction and demo strategy.
• Mentor peers and model the judgment and autonomy this role demands. Illustrate a clear path to broader leadership.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 7+ years of pre-sales, solution architecture, or customer-facing technical experience in B2B SaaS. Ideally on strategic or enterprise accounts.
• A track record of winning complex, high-value deals with sophisticated buying committees and multiple technical stakeholders.
• Experience selling into developer, platform, SRE, or engineering-led organizations with the ability to earn credibility fast, with both technical depth and business fluency.
• Executive presence and the range to tailor your message from hands-on practitioners to the C-suite.
• Sharp solutioning skills: you whiteboard clearly, simplify complexity, and build compelling technical strategies for ambiguous, high-stakes situations.
• Hands-on fluency across modern cloud environments, CSPs, containers, Kubernetes, distributed systems, API-driven architectures.
• Strong 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 languages and frameworks; enough to guide instrumentation and validation work directly.
• Strong instincts for unblocking deals, reframing challenges, and finding practical paths forward when things get ambiguous.
• Experience owning complex POCs and evaluations, defining success criteria, managing risk, and driving disciplined outcomes.
• A collaborative, cross-functional approach with experience influencing Product, Engineering, and GTM teams.
• A point of view on where observability, developer tooling, and AI-assisted workflows are headed and genuine enthusiasm for helping customers modernize.
• A mentorship and growth 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.