Senior Backend Software Engineer, AI Observability & Evals Platform

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.

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.

- 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.

- 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

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 include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.