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

- **Company:** [LangChain](https://feeny.ai/companies/langchain)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $175k–$225k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-01-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/langchain/f07c1416-f126-4925-8606-5dd7c5a90f6f/application

**Skills:** Python, Go, API Design, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, AWS, GCP, Azure, Performance tuning, Debugging production issues, Fullstack engineering, Frontend engineering

> Build backend systems for LangChain's AI observability and evaluation platform. Responsibilities include designing APIs, optimizing high-volume data storage, ensuring system reliability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deploy scalable solutions.

## Job description

## 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 LangSmith team owns and builds LangChain's core platform for observability, evaluation, and production reliability of AI systems. From tracing and annotation to run rules, evaluations, and beyond, this team owns LangSmith end-to-end. If you want to define what great AI observability looks like at production scale, this is where that work gets done.

## About The Role

In person 5 days/week in San Francisco, Boston, MA, New York. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join us. In this role you will be building the backend systems that power LangChain’s observability and evals platform. You will work on the core services that allow developers to monitor and evaluate their AI applications at scale. While the focus is on backend feature development, familiarity with fullstack or frontend engineering, performance tuning, and debugging production issues would be extremely valuable.

## What You'll Do

- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs to support LangSmith’s tracing, monitoring, and evaluation workflows.
- Collaborate on architectural decisions to ensure systems are performant and maintainable.
- Optimize storage and query performance for high-volume observability and evaluation data.
- Ensure system reliability through strong testing, monitoring, and alerting practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, performing root-cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including system design and API references.
- Work closely with full-stack engineers, product managers, and product designers on rolling out new features.

## What You'll Bring

- 5+ years of professional experience in backend engineering working on highly complex products
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages/frameworks, ideally Python or Go
- Strong understanding of API design and building reliable data services.
- Experience with high-throughput or mission-critical systems.
- Demonstrated ability to optimize backend services for performance and reliability.
- Experience with database systems (Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse), and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Customer centricity and ownership mentality

## Compensation

Annual salary range: $175,000- $240,000 Compensation Philosophy: We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks. Actual compensation and offerings will vary based on role, level, and location. 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

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LangChain provides an agent engineering platform and open source frameworks that help developers build, evaluate, deploy, and operate reliable AI agents at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with offices in New York, Boston, and Amsterdam)
- **Founded**: Early 2023
- **Founders**: Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Agent Engineering
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers and engineering teams at enterprises (35% of Fortune 500 are customers) and startups
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Make intelligent agents ubiquitous” – develop tools that make it easy to build reliable agents that can use data and take actions.

## Products & Services
- **[LangSmith](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Commercial agent engineering platform offering observability, evaluation (LLM-as-judge, human feedback), and deployment. Includes LangSmith Engine for automated issue detection and root cause analysis. Supports Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs.
- **[LangGraph](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Open source framework for building production agents with low-level control, durable checkpointing, and support for human-in-the-loop, multi-agent swarms, and A2A/MCP protocols.
- **[LangChain](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Original open source framework for building agents quickly with templates and any model provider.
- **[Deep Agents](https://www.langchain.com/)**: Agent harness for autonomous, long-horizon tasks with built-in memory and concurrency.
- **[Fleet](https://www.langchain.com/)**: No-code agent builder that lets non-technical users describe tasks in plain language; agents act across daily tools with enterprise security.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1.25 billion (unicorn status, per November 2025 Series B round)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $160 million (Seed: $10M led by Benchmark; Series A: $25M led by Sequoia Capital; Series B: $125M led by IVP). Annual Revenue (LinkedIn estimate): $8.5 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IVP (lead Series B), Benchmark (lead Seed), Sequoia Capital (lead Series A). Customers include Zip, Vanta, Klarna, Workday, LinkedIn, Cloudflare.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 212 employees (+264.8% YoY, +9.9% monthly)
  - 1 billion+ monthly open source downloads
  - 1 billion+ events ingested per day on LangSmith
  - 35% of Fortune 10 are LangSmith customers
  - 6,000+ active LangSmith customers
  - Awards: Forbes AI 50, InfraRed 100, IA40, Enterprise Tech 30
  - Active job postings: 123 (monthly +4.2%, yearly +668.8%)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open source ecosystem**: LangChain and LangGraph are the most popular open source frameworks for building LLM agents, with a massive community (100M+ monthly downloads) that drives adoption and talent.
- **Full lifecycle platform**: Covers building (open source frameworks), evaluating (LangSmith), deploying (agent server), and operating (LangSmith Engine) – a vertically integrated solution.
- **Framework-agnostic**: LangSmith works with any agent stack (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) via SDKs, reducing vendor lock-in.
- **Enterprise trust**: Already embedded in Fortune 500 companies; strong security and compliance features for production AI.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agent reliability**: Investing heavily in evaluation and observability to make agents “reliably good” – the hardest problem in production AI.
- **Long-horizon autonomy**: Deep Agents and Fleet target autonomous, multi-step tasks that require memory and human collaboration.
- **Global expansion**: Offices in US, Europe, and India; hiring across sales, engineering, and customer success to serve a growing international customer base.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, open source–first startup with a mission to shape how the world uses AI. Described as hiring “the best in the business” with a focus on engineering excellence.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/office presence in San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Amsterdam. Remote roles may exist (not explicitly stated, but global hiring suggests flexibility).
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**:
  - Work on cutting-edge agent technology used by millions of developers.
  - High autonomy and impact – small team with big ambitions.
  - Strong alumni network from top tech companies (AWS, Datadog, HashiCorp, GitLab, etc.).
  - Recent departures include VP of Marketing (Diana Smith, Mar 2026) – indicates some churn, but overall rapid hiring.
  - Active job postings across engineering, sales, product, and consulting – strong growth trajectory.

## Sources
1. [langchain.com](https://www.langchain.com/) – Official website (products, stats, customers)
2. [langchain.com/careers](https://www.langchain.com/careers) – Careers page (awards, values)
3. [langchain.com/about](https://www.langchain.com/about) – About page (mission, history, funding, team)
4. [linkedin.com/company/langchain](https://www.linkedin.com/company/langchain) – LinkedIn profile (headcount, revenue, funding rounds, job trends, talent sources)

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