Senior Fullstack Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform

at LangChain · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Senior Fullstack Engineer for LangSmith, an observability and evals platform for AI agents. The role involves leading technical architecture, implementing features across Go, Python, and Typescript, collaborating with product/design, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring high engineering standards. Requires 5+ years of fullstack experience with Go/Python and React/Typescript, strong database knowledge (Postgres, Redis), and API design/scaling experience. Experience with AI/LLM applications, developer tools, or observability platforms is a bonus. The role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the technical architecture and implementation of key product features for LangSmith, working across our entire Go, Python, and Typescript stack.
  2. Collaborate closely with product and design teams to iterate on new features.
  3. Mentor and guide more junior members of the team. Drive aggressive project timelines while ensuring high engineering standards are being met.
  4. Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering working on complex platform products
  • Fullstack engineering experience with Go or Python on the backend and React + Typescript on the frontend.
  • Strong understanding of database systems, particularly Postgres and Redis
  • Experience designing and scaling APIs, preferably in a high-performance, data-intensive application
  • Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders and engage directly with our top-tier customers
  • Strong ownership mindset

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI/LLM-powered applications, developer tools, or observability platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • observability and evals platform
  • observability and evals platform
  • shipping real AI products
  • complex platform products
  • high-performance, data-intensive application
  • shipping fast and iterating based on user feedback
  • engage directly with our top-tier customers

Other signals

  • LangSmith is an observability and evals platform
  • building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale
  • shipping real AI products
  • Senior Fullstack Engineer for our commercial product LangSmith, an observability and evals platform
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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, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, and Fleet are used by teams shipping real AI products across startups and large enterprises. Millions of developers trust LangChain to power AI teams at companies like Replit, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, and 35% of the Fortune 500.

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About the role

In person 5 days/week in San Francisco

We're looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer for our commercial product LangSmith, an observability and evals platform. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to shape the technical direction of our platform while working closely with enterprise customers, developer end-users and internal stakeholders.

What You Will Do

  • Lead the technical architecture and implementation of key product features for LangSmith, working across our entire Go, Python, and Typescript stack.
  • Collaborate closely with product and design teams to iterate on new features.
  • Mentor and guide more junior members of the team. Drive aggressive project timelines while ensuring high engineering standards are being met.
  • Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

What You Bring

  • 5+ years of experience** **in software engineering working on complex platform products
  • Fullstack engineering experience with Go or Python on the backend and React + Typescript on the frontend.
  • Strong understanding of database systems, particularly Postgres and Redis
  • Experience designing and scaling APIs, preferably in a high-performance, data-intensive application
  • A “get stuff done” attitude - comfortable shipping fast and iterating based on user feedback
  • Strong communicator with the ability to collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders and engage directly with our top-tier customers
  • Strong ownership mindset
  • Bonus: Experience with AI/LLM-powered applications, developer tools, or observability platforms

**Compensation **

  • Annual salary range: $175,000-$225,000 USD

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.