Database Infrastructure Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Neura Market; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical coverage

dental coverage

vision coverage

flexible vacation

401(k) plan

meals on in‑office days in the US

Job summary

LangChain is building SmithDB, an internal database system focused on AI observability and evaluation. We are hiring a Database Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure running SmithDB across cloud environments, ensuring reliability at scale and seamless upgrades.

You will build and maintain tooling, manage Kubernetes-based services, and drive automation in deployment pipelines and capacity planning. Join a fast, autonomous team building production-grade infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE with hands‑on.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Solid scripting/systems programming ability (Go, Python, or similar).
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or similar).
• Deep familiarity with at least one major cloud provider and the primitives used to run stateful workloads reliably.
• IaC fluency — Terraform or Pulumi/CDK as primary language.
• Strong operational instincts — on‑call for high‑traffic data systems, runbooks that are used.

Responsibilities

• Own the deployment and operations of SmithDB across cloud environments — cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, and automated failover.
• Build and maintain the infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent).
• Own the Kubernetes infrastructure that runs our distributed database services (multi‑tenant, high throughput, low latency).
• Build and improve deployment pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code for the storage layer.
• Drive reliability engineering: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and disaster recovery for massive scale.
• Manage capacity planning and cost efficiency — model growth and avoid manual intervention.
• Build the CI/CD pipeline for database infrastructure changes — safe, tested, fast promotion from dev to prod.
• Collaborate with SmithDB engineers to translate engine features into production infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go/Python

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

On-call

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Pulumi/CDK

Python

Go

Job description

LangChain is building SmithDB, an internal database system focused on AI observability and evaluation. We are hiring a Database Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure running SmithDB across cloud environments, ensuring reliability at scale and seamless upgrades.

You will build and maintain tooling, manage Kubernetes-based services, and drive automation in deployment pipelines and capacity planning. Join a fast, autonomous team building production-grade infrastructure.