About the company
Langfuse is part of ClickHouse, the team behind the database at the core of our stack. Langfuse processes over a billion trace events per month. When a Fortune 50 company relies on Langfuse in production, they're relying on the infrastructure you operate.
Responsibilities
- Own Langfuse Cloud operations: run production environments on AWS ECS Fargate and ClickHouse Cloud, manage deployments, autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
- Build world-class observability: own Datadog setup end to end — dashboards, alerts, and SLOs.
- Make self-hosting effortless: own and evolve Helm chart, Docker Compose configuration, and deployment documentation.
- Automate everything: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated scaling, zero-downtime deployments.
- Scale for what's next: think ahead about what breaks at 10x scale and build the foundation.
- Harden security and compliance: ensure cloud and self-hosted deployments meet security and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Strong infrastructure or SRE engineer who gets excited about running systems at scale.
- Experience operating production workloads on AWS (ECS/Fargate, networking, IAM, S3, etc.) or comparable hyperscale vendors.
- Comfortable with container orchestration — Kubernetes and/or ECS, Helm charts, Docker.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Strong monitoring and observability instincts — built dashboards and alerts that caught problems (Datadog experience is a plus).
- You organize yourself. Strong opinions about reliability, automation, and shipping infrastructure changes safely.
- Interest in open source software and enjoyment helping users debug self-hosted deployments.
- Thrives in a small, accountable team.
- CS or quantitative degree preferred.
Conditions
- Flexible work environment — globally distributed company and remote-friendly.
- Healthcare — employer contributions.
- Equity in the company — stock options.
- Time off — flexible in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- USD$500 home office setup if remote.
- Global gatherings — company-wide offsites.