LangChain

Senior Backend Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform (LangSmith)

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Boston, MA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
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Base Salary

$180k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for tracing, monitoring, and evaluation workflows.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions focused on performance and maintainability.
  • Optimize storage and query performance for high-volume observability and evaluation data.
  • Improve system reliability through testing, monitoring, and alerting practices.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including system design and API references.
  • Collaborate with full-stack engineers, product managers, and product designers on new features.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience working on highly complex products.
  • Proficiency in one or more backend languages or frameworks, ideally Python and/or Go.
  • Strong understanding of API design and reliable data services.
  • Experience with high-throughput, mission-critical systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to optimize backend services for performance and reliability.
  • Experience with Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse is beneficial.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure is beneficial.
  • Strong communication, cross-functional collaboration, customer centricity, and ownership mentality.

Benefits

  • Annual onsite work arrangement in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Meals on in-office days in the US.
  • Compensation includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, equity, benefits, and perks.
LangChain

About LangChain

201-500 employees

LangChain builds open-source frameworks and a commercial platform for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating LLM-powered agents and applications. Its LangSmith suite provides observability, testing, deployment, and governance for enterprise AI workloads; customers include Nvidia, LinkedIn, Workday, and Bridgewater. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2022.

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