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Python OSS Engineer

Location
San Francisco, CA
Compensation
$160k–$225k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time

Skills & Technologies

Requirements

Experience
5+ years

Benefits

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

Joblaze summary

The Python OSS Engineer at LangChain plays a crucial role in enhancing the LangChain Python package, focusing on improving core abstractions, documentation, and user support. This position requires strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python, along with the ability to communicate complex concepts effectively. Ideal candidates have over five years of experience and thrive in dynamic environments, contributing to a team that values community engagement and impactful development. LangChain is rapidly growing, backed by significant funding, and offers a collaborative atmosphere for shaping AI technology.

Joblaze insights

Quick facts

Is the Python OSS Engineer 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 5 years of relevant experience for this Python OSS Engineer 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: LangGraph, Python, LangChain.
What seniority level is this role?
LangChain targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Python OSS Engineer role at LangChain.

From the original posting

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 Python Open Source team maintains and evolves the core LangChain Python ecosystem used by millions of developers worldwide. We focus on building reliable, well-designed abstractions for developing AI agents and integrating them with real-world tools and systems. The team works closely with the open-source community, incorporating feedback and contributions while ensuring the core libraries remain stable, scalable, and production-ready. Our work defines the developer experience for building AI applications with Python.

About the role

In person 5 days/week in San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA (SF preferred)

We’re looking to add a core maintainer to the LangChain team. This person would be responsible for maintaining and improving the LangChain Python package.

  • Improving the core abstractions and runtime of the langchain and langgraph packages

  • Improving documentation

  • Answering user questions and resolving issues

  • Use langchain to build example applications

What You'll Do

  • Improve the core abstractions and runtime of the LangChain and LangGraph packages

  • Improve documentation across the LangChain ecosystem

  • Answer user questions and resolve issues from the community

  • Use LangChain to build example applications that demonstrate how to build production AI systems

What You'll Bring

  • 5+ years of software engineering or applied machine learning experience

  • Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • The ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment and view unstructured environments as an opportunity to identify impactful work and define the future success of the company

  • An ownership-minded approach to work, with the ability to manage your work efficiently and effectively without the need for close supervision

Compensation

  • Annual salary range: $160,000- $240,000

Compensation Philosophy:

We 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.

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