Product Engineer (Backend)

TLDR: We're looking for a Product Engineer (Backend – Rust) to own and evolve the core systems that power AI safety at scale – building APIs that handle hundreds of millions of requests, real-time policy enforcement, and high-throughput data pipelines.

About us

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others

We process over one hundred million API calls every month

We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

You will

Design and build backend services in Rust that handle real-time policy checks at scale – low latency, high reliability.

Own features end-to-end: from API design to database schema to deployment. You ship, you monitor, you iterate.

Work across the stack when needed – we care more about solving problems than role boundaries.

Improve system performance and reliability – connection pooling, caching strategies, query optimization, observability.

Collaborate directly with product, research to turn requirements into production systems.

You’ll fit right in if you

You've built and shipped backend systems in Rust, Python or Go.

You're comfortable with async Rust (Tokio), web frameworks (Axum, Actix), and database access patterns.

You have strong fundamentals in system design – you can reason about trade-offs, failure modes, and scaling.

You've worked with PostgreSQL and know how to write efficient queries, design schemas, and debug performance issues.

You communicate clearly and work well with others. Fluent English.

A big plus

Experience with ClickHouse, Redis, or Kafka/event streaming

Experience with LLM infra, including LLM routing, inference systems, and RAG architectures

Background in high-throughput monitoring systems, fintech

Why White Circle

Competitive compensation package, including equity

Flexible time off

Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from

Work from Paris (hybrid) + relocation package

Best medical insurance in France

Learning and development support for courses, conferences, and opportunities to grow your skills

All the hardware, tools, and services you need

Covered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEs

Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez

Process

Intro call with one of our colleagues

Show your best during the technical interview

Final call with our CEO and Head of Engineering

Please submit your application in English.