# Software Engineering Manager, Database (SmithDB)

Hiring organization: [LangChain](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/langchain)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/abc4b002-ecb2-4b99-a091-73c15b9d43b9

Listed on LangChain's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 240000 – 300000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead a small, high-impact systems engineering team building SmithDB, LangChain's custom database for AI observability. This hands-on role combines technical depth in distributed systems and Rust with team management, architectural leadership, and shipping performance improvements to production.

_Our summary, not LangChain's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon S3, Kubernetes, Rust

## Required

- 7+ years systems or database engineering experience
- 2+ years in technical lead or engineering management role
- Production Rust code writing and review
- Database or storage engine internals knowledge
- Systems performance analysis capability
- Kubernetes production deployment and operation experience
- Cloud object storage familiarity
- Track record managing engineers

## Nice to have

- Columnar storage formats like Parquet or Arrow
- OLAP query engines or time-series database experience
- Observability infrastructure or tracing pipeline experience
- Experience scaling systems to hundreds of billions or trillions of records

Apply on LangChain's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/langchain/d81c35c1-7243-45e4-bfe2-7fc8746c76b9/application