We're building a database specifically designed for AI observability and evaluation, and we need someone to own the infrastructure layer that keeps it running reliably at scale. As a Database Infra Engineer on the SmithDB team, you won't be designing the storage engine — you'll be making sure the engine never goes down, scales seamlessly as our customer base grows, and is operationally excellent across cloud environments.

Own the deployment and operations of SmithDB across cloud environments — including cluster lifecycle management, blue/green and rolling upgrades, and automated failover

Build and maintain the infrastructure tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent) that provisions, configures, and scales SmithDB nodes

Own the Kubernetes infrastructure that runs our distributed database services (multi-tenant, high throughput, low latency)

Build and improve deployment pipelines, rollout strategies, and infrastructure-as-code for the storage layer

Drive reliability engineering efforts: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and disaster recovery for a system operating at massive scale

Manage capacity planning and cost efficiency — model growth, rightsize resources, and ensure SmithDB can absorb traffic spikes from our largest customers without manual intervention

Build the CI/CD pipeline for database infrastructure changes — safe, tested, and fast promotion from dev through staging to production

Collaborate closely with SmithDB internals engineers to translate new engine features into production-ready infrastructure changes and ensure safe, low-risk rollouts

What you'll bring

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)

Infrastructure Engineer, Database

Responsibilities

Qualification

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Langchain

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