LangChain
Technology
SoftwareEngineeringManager,AIObservability&EvalsPlatform
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“Software Engineering Manager, AI Observability & Evals Platform at LangChain. Skills: AI Observability, LLM Applications, Developer Tools, Platform Engineering. Build high-performing team. Mentor high-performing team”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience managing teams, Experience tech-leading teams, Delivering complex full-stack products, Technical background in Go/Python, Technical background in React/Typescript, Solid understanding of databases, Proven ability to design high throughput data-intensive systems, Bias towards shipping quickly, Bias towards learning from customers, Communication skills
Nice to Have
Experience building AI/LLM-powered applications, Experience building developer tools, Experience building observability platforms
What You'll Do.
Build high-performing team
Mentor high-performing team
Grow high-performing team
Foster accountability
Strengthen engineering culture
Shape long-term technical direction
Ensure scalability of LangSmith
Ensure reliability of LangSmith
Partner with product teams
Partner with design teams
Define scope for initiatives
Define sequence for initiatives
Define success criteria for initiatives
Maintain high bar for technical excellence
Ensure team moves with urgency
Ensure team moves with focus
Write maintainable code
Write well-tested code
Engage directly with customers
Understand customer needs
Translate needs into improvements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product; Partner with design
Communication Scope
Customer engagement
Full 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 We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team building LangSmith, our observability and evaluation platform for LLM applications. You’ll define the technical direction, grow and mentor a world-class engineering team, and partner with product and design to deliver features that help deve
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