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Developer Productivity

Location
San Francisco, CA
Compensation
$160k–$225k/yr
Level
mid
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

Requirements

Experience
3+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Flexible Vacation Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Life Insurance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Software Engineer will focus on enhancing developer productivity by managing testing strategies across LangChain's cloud and platform products. Key skills include proficiency in Python, experience with CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, and a solid grasp of API testing and infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform. This position is ideal for someone with over three years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, looking to contribute to a rapidly growing company that emphasizes quality and reliability in AI applications.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on LangChain's careers page October 26, 2026.
  • Salary band is in line with the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
  • Starts above 78% of 50 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $125,000 across 17 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
  • Kubernetes appears in 60.3% of 126 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States; SQL appears in 1.6% of 126 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Developer Productivity role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA.
What's the salary range?
LangChain lists $160,000–$225,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Developer Productivity role.
Where is the role based?
LangChain is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: BigQuery, ClickHouse, Datadog, GitHub Actions, Go, Helm.
What seniority level is this role?
LangChain targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Developer Productivity role at LangChain.

From the original posting

About Us

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

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