Developer Productivity

San Francisco, New York

About the role

About Us

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. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.

With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.

Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.

About the Team

The Infrastructure team builds and maintains the systems that power LangChain’s developer platform, including LangGraph Cloud and LangSmith. The team focuses on reliability, scalability, and developer productivity across the stack, working closely with backend, frontend, and platform engineers to ensure services are deployed, tested, and operated with confidence.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure team and own developer productivity across our LangGraph Cloud/Platform and LangSmith products. You’ll work closely with Infrastructure, Backend, and Frontend teams to ship with confidence across Kubernetes-based services, APIs, and UI flows. You’ll also help pioneer quality practices specific to LLM applications, such as prompt regression testing and evaluation suites.

Location: In person 5 days/week in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY

What You'll Do

  • Own test strategy end-to-end across APIs, services, UI, data, and infrastructure (Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm)
  • Stand up ephemeral test environments in Kubernetes for pull requests and release candidates; seed test data and run hermetic test suites
  • Shift quality earlier in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) through parallelization, caching, deterministic seeds, flake tracking, and quality gates
  • Build observability into testing workflows with rich failure artifacts such as logs, traces, and dashboards
  • Establish performance and reliability baselines for critical paths, including SLIs, SLOs, and regression detection
  • Partner on incident workflows by reproducing issues, adding targeted regression tests, and improving runbooks and postmortems
  • Write documentation including test plans, playbooks, and contributor guidelines for writing high-quality tests

Example projects you might own

  • A pull-request ephemeral end-to-end testing harness that deploys a minimal LangSmith stack in CI and runs Playwright and API suites against seeded tenants
  • A k6 performance scenario that simulates multi-tenant traffic and surfaces p95/p99 latency regressions per release
  • A flake-budget system that automatically quarantines flaky tests, opens issues with artifacts, and tracks time-to-deflake

What You'll Bring

  • 3+ years of experience as a software engineer or infrastructure engineer
  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and testing frameworks such as pytest
  • Experience working with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred) and improving pipeline performance and reliability
  • Solid understanding of API testing, mocking/stubbing, and data setup/teardown
  • Comfort defining quality standards, writing test plans, and driving cross-team execution

Nice to Have

  • Experience with load and performance testing tools such as k6
  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Datadog or OpenTelemetry
  • Experience testing services running on Kubernetes and containerized environments
  • Basic infrastructure experience with Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes networking, or secrets management
  • SQL fluency for validating data (Postgres, ClickHouse, BigQuery)
  • Familiarity with Go, Node, or React for targeted white-box tests and improving system testability

Compensation

  • Annual salary range: $165,000- $250,000 USD

Compensation Philosophy:

We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.

We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.

About LangChain

LangChain offers a comprehensive platform designed for the entire agent engineering lifecycle, enabling teams to build and ship reliable agents to production. Its open-source products include the LangChain framework for pre-built architecture and model integrations, and LangGraph for building custom agent workflows. The platform features LangSmith, which provides observability and tracing for debugging, evaluation tools to improve agent quality with test sets and feedback, and deployment infrastructure built for long-running workloads and human oversight.

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Job details

Salary

$165,000 - $250,000

Location

San Francisco, New York

Company

NameLangChain
IndustryAgentic AI
Team Size3

Funding

Total raised

$160M

Last stage

Growth

Investors

IVP
Sequoia
Benchmark
CCapitalG
Sapphire Ventures

Founders

HC

Harrison Chase

Founder & CEO

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.