Developer Productivity

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 ephemerous test environments in Kubernetes for pull requests and release candidates; seed test data and run hermetic test suitesShift quality earlier in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) through parallelization, caching, deterministic seeds, flake tracking, and quality gatesBuild observability into testing workflows with rich failure artifacts such as logs, traces, and dashboardsEstablish performance and reliability baselines for critical paths, including SLIs, SLOs, and regression detectionPartner on incident workflows by reproducing issues, adding targeted regression tests, and improving runbooks and postmortemsWrite documentation including test plans, playbooks, and contributor guidelines for writing high-quality testsExample projects you might own A pull-request ephemerous 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-deflakeWhat You’ll Bring 3+ years of experience as a software engineer or infrastructure engineerStrong hands-on experience withPython and testing frameworks such as pytestExperience working withCI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred)and improving pipeline performance and reliabilitySolid understanding ofAPI testing, mocking/stubbing, and data setup/teardownComfort defining quality standards, writing test plans, and driving cross-team executionNice to HaveExperience withload and performance testing tools such as k6Familiarity withobservability tooling such as Datadog or OpenTelemetryExperience testing services running onKubernetes and containerized environmentsBasic infrastructure experience withHelm, Terraform, Kubernetes networking, or secrets managementSQL fluency for validating data (Postgres, ClickHouse, BigQuery) Familiarity withGo, Node, or Reactfor targeted white-box tests and improving system testabilityCompensationAnnual salary range: $175,000- $240,000 USDCompensation PhilosophyWe 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.