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Open Source Engineer - Python

Build and maintain Python open-source SDKs for Braintrust's AI observability platform, integrating with major AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. Focus on developer experience, performance, community support, and robust library design for production use.

San Francisco, CANew York, NYSeattle, WABackend EngineeringOnsite

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Build elegant, idiomatic, and resilient SDKs that power Braintrust’s LLM evaluation and AI observability platform.
  • Ensure our libraries are easy to use, efficient to run, and a delight to work with, prioritizing developer experience and performance.
  • Integrate with major AI providers, frameworks, and platforms our customers rely on, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.
  • Build tools and automation to improve testing, profiling and simplify release workflows.
  • Collaborate closely with backend, platform, and product teams to ensure a cohesive and polished developer experience.
  • Be a great community ambassador: talk with our users, understand their issues, help them get their fixes merged and have deep empathy for our users.

You Might Be a Fit If You

  • Are customer-obsessed and passionate about solving real-world problems for developers.
  • Have deep expertise in Python and understand what it takes to build fast, idiomatic, and reliable libraries in that ecosystem.
  • Are proficient with the tooling needed to build robust SDKs, such as testing frameworks, profilers, CI/CD pipelines, and packaging systems.
  • Care deeply about developer experience, from clean APIs and clear docs to thoughtful error handling and backward compatibility.
  • Know how to wrap, patch, or extend existing frameworks and SDKs to inject observability and control without breaking developer workflows.
  • Have experience maintaining or contributing to production-grade open-source libraries, ideally used across multiple environments.

Bonus: You’ve contributed to popular open source projects, led SDK adoption at your organization, are familiar with tracing and observability tools like OpenTelemetry, or worked on tools in the LLM/AI ecosystem.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
  • Flexible time off
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • AI Stipend

Skills

PythonOpenAIAnthropicGeminiOpenTelemetryCI/CDTesting FrameworksProfilersPackaging Systems

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