# Software Engineering Manager, AI Observability & Evals Platform (New York, NY)

**Company:** [LangChain](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/langchain)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** Go, Python, TypeScript, React, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse
**Posted:** 2026-01-31

> Leads engineering team building LangSmith AI observability platform for LLM apps. Mentors engineers, shapes technical direction, partners with product/design, codes in Go/Python/TypeScript, and engages customers. Requires strong full-stack experience and data-intensive systems design.

## Job Description

## What you will do
- Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering collaboration, ownership, and accountability
- Strengthen LangChain's engineering culture through mentorship, high-quality code, and technical excellence
- Shape long-term technical direction and ensure scalability and reliability of LangSmith AI Observability Platform
- Partner with product and design teams to define scope, sequence, and success criteria for key initiatives
- Maintain a high bar for technical excellence while making sure the team moves with urgency and focus
- Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in Go/Python and Typescript
- Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into actionable product improvements

## How to be successful in this role
- Experience managing or tech-leading teams delivering complex full-stack products
- Strong technical background in Go/Python and React/Typescript
- Solid understanding of databases (Postgres, Redis and ClickHouse)
- Proven ability to design high throughput data-intensive systems
- Bias towards shipping quickly and learning from customers
- Strong communication skills—able to collaborate with internal stakeholders and engage directly with customers
- **Bonus**: Experience building AI/LLM-powered applications, developer tools, or observability platforms

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual salary range: **$200,000-$250,000**
- Competitive compensation including base salary, variable compensation, meaningful equity, medical/dental/vision, flexible vacation, 401(k), life insurance

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