Software Engineering Manager, AI Observability & Evals Platform (Boston)
At a glance
Manager-level Engineering Leadership role at LangChain. Cambridge · full-time · $220,000–$270,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and coach an engineering team, setting expectations for shared ownership and accountability
- Set LangSmith’s technical course and keep the platform scalable and dependable
- Work with product and design to prioritize initiatives, define scope, and agree on success measures
- Write clean, tested Go, Python, and TypeScript code while modeling strong engineering standards
- Talk with customers and turn their needs into product changes
What you bring
- Experience managing or technically leading teams that deliver complex full-stack products
- Strong skills in Go or Python, plus React or TypeScript
- A solid grasp of Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse databases
- Experience designing systems that handle high-volume data throughput
Who this fits
This role suits an engineering manager who can combine hands-on coding with team leadership and technical direction. The job is onsite in Cambridge, and the stated annual salary range is $220,000 to $270,000.
From the employer
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 developers build and deploy trustworthy AI systems with confidence.
What you'll do
Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering collaboration, ownership, and accountability
Strengthen LangChain’s engineering culture through mentorship, high-quality code, and technical excellence
Shape long-term technical direction and ensure scalability and reliability of LangSmith AI Observability Platform
Partner with product and design teams to define scope, sequence, and success criteria for key initiatives
Maintain a high bar for technical excellence while making sure the team moves with urgency and focus
Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in Go/Python and Typescript
Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into actionable product improvements
What you'll bring
Experience managing or tech-leading teams delivering complex full-stack products
Strong technical background in Go/Python and React/Typescript
Solid understanding of databases (Postgres, Redis and ClickHouse)
Proven ability to design high throughput data-intensive systems
Bias towards shipping quickly and learning from customers
Strong communication skills—able to collaborate with internal stakeholders and engage directly with customers
Bonus: Experience building AI/LLM-powered applications, developer tools, or observability platforms
Annual salary range: $220,000- $270,000
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.
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