Software Engineering Manager, Database (SmithDB)
LangChain · San Francisco
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- Company
- LangChain
- Location
- San Francisco
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Salary
- $240,000-$300,000
- Posted
- June 30, 2026
About this job
About the role We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead the SmithDB team. This is not a pure people-management role. You'll write production code, review PRs at the systems level, make architectural calls, and be in the weeds alongside your engineers. At the same time, you'll own team health, hiring, technical roadmap, and coordination with the broader LangSmith platform. The ideal candidate has deep systems or database engineering experience and genuinely prefers to stay technical while growing a team. What you'll do - Write and review production Rust code across ingestion, query execution, and storage layers - Lead architectural decisions on storage format, compaction, indexing, and query planning - Drive performance investigations using memory and CPU profiling tools;…
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