Product Engineer (Backend)

Npv · Paris

  • Full-time
  • Mid level
  • $80K – $150K /yr

About the role

We're looking for a Product Engineer, Backend (Rust) to join White Circle, an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems through natural-language policies it automatically tests, enforces, and improves at scale. Backed by $70M (Series A) from top funds and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, and others, White Circle processes 100M+ API calls monthly and fine-tunes and trains its own LLMs to run faster and cheaper than open or proprietary models.

You will

  • Design and build Rust backend services handling real-time policy checks at scale.

  • Own features end-to-end – API design, schema, deployment, monitoring.

  • Improve performance and reliability through connection pooling, caching, query optimization, and observability.

  • Collaborate directly with product and research.

Requirements

  • Production experience with Rust, Python, or Go.

  • Comfortable with async Rust (Tokio), Axum/Actix, and PostgreSQL – schema design, query optimization, debugging.

  • Strong system design fundamentals: trade-offs, failure modes, scaling.

  • Relocation to Paris or London (hybrid) required.

Stack

  • Rust, Tokio, Axum/Actix, PostgreSQL.

  • Bonus: ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, LLM infra (routing, inference, RAG), or high-throughput monitoring background.

We offer

  • $80k–$150k/year salary + equity; higher figures can be negotiated.

  • Official employment, visa and relocation help.


Compensation: $80K – $150K • Higher figures and equity are negotiable

  • • $80K – $150K • Higher figures and equity are negotiable

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