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Developer Productivity

LangChain is hiring a Developer Productivity in San Francisco, United States. It pays $165k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on LangChain.

Level's read on this job

  • On Level's scale, this role is Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • The posting mentions LangGraph, Clay and Kubernetes among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a mid-level role.
  • LangChain has 97 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Build infrastructure, testing strategies, and developer productivity tools for LLM agent platforms.

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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, 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 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 ephemeral test environments in Kubernetes for pull requests and release candidates; seed test data and run hermetic test suites

  • Shift quality earlier in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) through parallelization, caching, deterministic seeds, flake tracking, and quality gates

  • Build observability into testing workflows with rich failure artifacts such as logs, traces, and dashboards

  • Establish performance and reliability baselines for critical paths, including SLIs, SLOs, and regression detection

  • Partner on incident workflows by reproducing issues, adding targeted regression tests, and improving runbooks and postmortems

  • Write documentation including test plans, playbooks, and contributor guidelines for writing high-quality tests

Example projects you might own

  • A pull-request ephemeral 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-deflake

What You'll Bring

  • 3+ years of experience as a software engineer or infrastructure engineer

  • Strong hands-on experience with Python and testing frameworks such as pytest

  • Experience working with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions preferred) and improving pipeline performance and reliability

  • Solid understanding of API testing, mocking/stubbing, and data setup/teardown

  • Comfort defining quality standards, writing test plans, and driving cross-team execution

Nice to Have

  • Experience with load and performance testing tools such as k6

  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Datadog or OpenTelemetry

  • Experience testing services running on Kubernetes and containerized environments

  • Basic infrastructure experience with Helm, Terraform, Kubernetes networking, or secrets management

  • SQL fluency for validating data (Postgres, ClickHouse, BigQuery)

  • Familiarity with Go, Node, or React for targeted white-box tests and improving system testability

Compensation

  • Annual salary range: $165,000- $250,000 USD

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.

How we rate this

Developer Productivity at LangChain rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Questions you could be asked

  1. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  2. Tell me about a project where developer productivity was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where testing was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where llm evaluation was part of your work. What did you do?

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