LangChain
Software Engineering Manager, AI Observability & Evals Platform
Boston, MA
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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$34,155 more — $254,155 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $254,155 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer and Information Systems Managers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- If you want to define what great AI observability looks like at production scale, this is where that work gets done.
Responsibilities
- Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering collaboration, ownership, and accountability
- 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
- Proven ability to design high throughput data-intensive systems
Compensation
- 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.
- $220,000- $270,000
- Compensation Philosophy:
Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.
- Bias towards shipping quickly and learning from customers
- Bonus: Experience building AI/LLM-powered applications, developer tools, or observability platforms
- Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
- The LangSmith team owns and builds LangChain's core platform for observability, evaluation, and production reliability of AI systems.
- From tracing and annotation to run rules, evaluations, and beyond, this team owns LangSmith end-to-end.
- Engage directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into actionable product improvements
This listing is sourced directly from LangChain's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.