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Comment · 1 month ago
We’re hiring at Langfuse — now part of ClickHouse.
We are looking for a Product Manager, Product & Backend Engineers, Product Marketing Manager and Developer Relations Engineers to join us in building the most widely adopted open-source LLM engineering platform.
- Berlin or EU hybrid (Engineering roles) / US-fully remote (Product & Marketing roles)
- ~1 week onsite in Berlin every 2 months — travel covered
- Full-time
- €90–160k + ClickHouse equity
Hi, I’m Max, CTO and co-founder. Langfuse is focused on AI/LLM observability, with a lot of interesting challenges ahead, from AI data and developer experience to scaling systems for production workloads.
Right now, we’re focused on helping customers segment their traces, surface insights from them, and ship changes to their agents faster — building observability at serious scale while creating the product surface engineers actually live in day to day.
The best way to get a feel for what we’re building and how we work:
• Company Handbook (https://langfuse.com/handbook)
• How we work (https://langfuse.com/handbook/how-we- work/principles)
• How we hire (https://langfuse.com/handbook/how-we-hire)
• Product Documentation (https://langfuse.com/docs)
• All our open roles (https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/langfuse)
If you’re excited about building the infrastructure and product layer for the next generation of AI applications, we’d love to hear from you.
Happy to answer any questions!
Comment · 3 months ago
Langfuse (now part of ClickHouse) | Product Engineers & Backend Engineers | Berlin / EU-remote, ~1 week onsite every 2 months (travel covered) | Full-time | €70–130k + ClickHouse equity
Hi, I'm Max, CTO and co-founder. Langfuse is the open-source LLM engineering platform — tracing/observability, evals, and prompt management — used by tens of thousands of teams to ship, debug, and improve their LLM and agent apps.
Earlier this year, Langfuse joined ClickHouse ($400M Series D led by Dragoneer, $15B valuation). That gives us the best of both worlds: startup-speed, ownership, and roadmap control, backed by the scale, resources, and equity upside of a category-defining infra company.
The full story: Why we joined: https://langfuse.com/blog/joining-clickhouse ClickHouse's take: https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-langfuse-ope...
Right now we're focused on helping customers segment their traces, surface insights from them, and ship changes to their agents faster — observability at serious scale, plus the product surface engineers actually live in day to day. See what we're building: langfuse.com
Our handbook is the best way to understand how we operate: https://langfuse.com/handbook
Check out our open roles and apply to the one you think fits you best and we'll take it from there: https://langfuse.com/careers. Happy to answer questions in the thread.
Comment · 1 year ago
Langfuse (https://langfuse.com) | Backend Engineer, Product Engineer, Design Engineer | Berlin Germany | in-person | Full-time
I'm Max, co-founder and CTO of Langfuse (YC W23) - we're building open source LLMOps dev tooling (Github: https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/). We started with observability and have branched out into more workflows over time (evals, prompt mgmt, playground, testing...). We have a bunch of traction and are looking for our fourth to sixth hire in scaling and building feature depth. We're hiring in person (4-5 days/week) in Berlin, Germany (salary ranges for each job 70k-130k, up to 0.35% equity).
We value quality in engineering at Langfuse: We try to find elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges, and we invested significant effort in enhancing our production setup (infra as code, top observability setup and more).
If you'd love shipping in open source, writing about what you work on and working hard with super interesting and sophisticated customers (devs) - reach out!
More info: https://langfuse.com/careers
Comment · 1 year ago
Langfuse (https://langfuse.com) | Backend Engineer, Product Engineer, Design Engineer | Berlin Germany | in-person | Full-time
I'm Max, co-founder and CTO of Langfuse (YC W23) - we're building open source LLMOps dev tooling (Github: https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/). We started with observability and have branched out into more workflows over time (evals, prompt mgmt, playground, testing...). We have a bunch of traction and are looking for our fourth to sixth hire in scaling and building feature depth. We're hiring in person (4-5 days/week) in Berlin, Germany (salary ranges for each job 70k-130k, up to 0.35% equity).
We value quality in engineering at Langfuse: We try to find elegant solutions to complex engineering challenges, and we invested significant effort in enhancing our production setup (infra as code, top observability setup and more).
If you'd love shipping in open source, writing about what you work on and working hard with super interesting and sophisticated customers (devs) - reach out!
More info: https://langfuse.com/careers
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you! If these builders have some feedback to share, ask them to reach out to us :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Langfuse (YC W23) | https://langfuse.com | Full-Time | Berlin, Germany | on-site | LLM Observability and Analytics
Langfuse is open source [1] observability and analytics tool for LLM applications — think Amplitude and Datadog for LLM apps. Our users use Langfuse to understand what happens in production and use our insights to improve their applications. We have built a number of LLM applications during the last YC winter batch and realized how hard it is to debug and improve them and move beyond an MVP.
Details on the job:
- We work in-person in our office in Berlin, Germany - We heavily use the T3 stack [2] (Nextjs, Prisma, Tailwind, tRPC, shadcn) and have client SDKs in TS and Python and expect you to have experience with full-stack Typescript projects. - You will work on topics such as improving DX on the SDKs, think about and implement architecture improvements, or re-think how we illustrate LLM traces in our UI. - We want to build a tool that is recommended here on HN: you can build a tool you would want to use yourself.
Please see more details here: https://langfuse.com/careers or reach out directly to me: [email protected]
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks a lot! We see teams adopt Langfuse quite early already. Say you have one or two engineers working on a rather complex LLM feature, they look for a solution like Langfuse already in a test environment before going to production. The majority observes their LLM features in production though.
We dont see test-driven development as much but we do think that model and rule based eval will become more important in the future and CIs will only pass if a certain score was achieved.
Comment · 3 years ago
This reads like a book, thank you so much for putting this together!
> About value prop: Thanks for the feedback! We are already trying to be as vocal about it as possible by writing great docs etc. but can probably do better.
> PLG & OSS: thanks for the hint, we will be careful around managing deployments within customer VPCs.
> Pricing: Currently picked storage as the first metric to price on as this varies a lot across users. Some use langfuse to track complex embedding processes with a lot of context, others just simple chat messages with relatively low-context, low-value events.
> OTel: We looked into it but did not go into all the details. We wanted to have a product out there fast and liked the experience of e.g. Posthog SDKs. I might reach out to you concerning this topic after investing more time on it. Thanks for the offer!
> OLAP: Agree, i also learned to tackle scaling issues once they appear and so far we are good. Interesting that Supabase has no horizontal scaling. This would be one of the main reasons to use it IMO.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, we were thinking about the lack of standards as well. I would be super happy to have a design discussion around the topic, i will reach out to you.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion. We love tremor as it perfectly fits into our React/Tailwind setup. Cubeis great for collecting data from multiple resources, caching aggregates, and providing an API to call from our React FE. I think this could be a solution for the future in case we run into performance issues or end up having data stored in different databases.
I am rather wondering how we can provide our users with a DD like dashboard experience. We would love to provide many different graphs, the ability to select and filter data, maybe even SQL like queries from the FE.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you so much, fully share your sentiment on this and aligned our domain language to OpenTelemetry. Currently users add lots of metadata and configuration details to the trace by manually instrumenting it using the SDKs (or via Langchain integration).
We are thinking about integrating OpenTelemetry, as this would be a step function on making integrations with apps easier. However, hadn't had the time yet to figure out how capture all the metadata that's relevant as context to the trace.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is Max, one of the co-founders. We appreciate existing observability tools as they have saved us so much time in the past already.
Excited to get your view on this! We've found many observability demands to be quite different when working on LLM applications. Mainly: Unpredictable input (users input free-form text that cannot be fully tested for), control flow highly dynamic when running on the textual output of a previous step and quality of output is not known at runtime (for the application it is just text).
Many teams read manually through the LLM inputs and outputs to get a feeling for correctness or ask for user feedback. In addition, currently working on abstraction for model-based evals to make it simple to try which one works best for a use case and automatically run it on all production prompts/completions.
One user described the difference to be that they use observability usually to know that nothing is going wrong whereas they use Langfuse many hours per day to understand how to best improve the application and navigate cost/latency/quality trade offs.
Comment · 3 years ago
Hi, this is Max - one of the founders of Langfuse and super excited to show Langfuse to HN today.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I had not heard of Tinybird but it seems like a great product. It could be valuable to use their materialized views to calculate aggregates for our analytics UI.
We will need to discuss whether we can use them as they are not open source.
However, for anyone reading this, they use Clickhouse under the hood and have created a knowledge base (https://github.com/tinybirdco/clickhouse_knowledge_base). I will browse it to learn more.