LangChain

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

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7 months ago
Boston, MA, USA +2 moreSenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$175k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs for tracing, monitoring, and evaluation workflows.
  • Collaborate on architectural decisions to build performant and maintainable systems.
  • Optimize storage and query performance for high-volume observability and evaluation data.
  • Improve 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 designs and API references.
  • Work with full-stack engineers, product managers, and product designers to roll out features.

Requirements

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

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Meals on in-office days in the US.
  • In-person work five days per week in San Francisco, Boston, or New York.
LangChain

About LangChain

201-500 employees

At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. What began as widely adopted open-source tools has grown into a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale. LangChain provides the agent engineering platform and open source frameworks developers need to ship reliable agents fast. LangSmith offers observability, evaluation, and deployment for rapid iteration. Our open source frameworks, LangGraph, LangChain, and Deep Agents, help developers build agents with speed and granular control. LangSmith is trusted by leading AI teams at Zip, Vanta, Klarna, Workday, Linkedin, Cloudflare, and more.