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White CircleAI Safety

Data Engineer

Location

Paris, France

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full Time

Experience

5-8 years

Compensation

$60K - $80K per year

Posted

6d ago

Summary and responsibilities

Role overview

Summary

This Data Engineer role at White Circle involves designing and building robust data pipelines from scratch, handling petabytes of logs, events, and model traces. The successful candidate will create a clean, reliable environment for production, testing, and research workloads, owning internal data tooling and transforming raw chaos into structured datasets.

Overview
TLDR: We’re looking for a Data Engineer who can design and build our data pipelines from scratch – handling petabytes of logs, events, and model traces – and create a clean, reliable environment for production, testing, and research workloads.


What you’ll do

  • Own and evolve our internal data tooling.

  • Scrape external sources, turn raw chaos into structured datasets, and keep them fresh and reliable.

  • Build and maintain pipelines to transform and version data, ensuring quality through testing and monitoring.

  • Create new data products that directly address business needs.

  • Diagnose and fix pipeline issues before they become someone else’s problem.

  • Ship analytics and dashboards that people actually use.

  • Jump into data and infra tasks where needed and make things more robust.


What we’re looking for

  • You’re strong in Python and SQL and comfortable working with messy, real-world data.

  • You have solid experience with web scraping and know how to make pipelines reliable, monitored, and resilient.

  • You’ve worked with PostgreSQL (or similar) and understand how to structure and query data efficiently.

  • You’ve worked with a cloud data warehouse (ClickHouse, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.).

  • You’re a builder: you fix things, improve systems, and don’t wait for perfect specs.

  • You communicate clearly and can work in English.


Nice to have / Big plus

  • Experience with Metabase or similar BI tools.

  • Experience versioning datasets and building lightweight data pipelines.

  • Experience with dbt for data modeling / analytics engineering.

  • Familiarity with ETL tools (Fivetran, Airbyte, dltHub, etc.).

  • Experience with AWS (Athena, Glue, S3, etc.).

  • Experience with AI-assisted or agentic coding.


Why White Circle

  • 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

  • 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

Updated 6d ago

Candidate fit

Skills and qualifications

Additional skills

Python • 1+ yrs
SQL • 1+ yrs
Web scraping • 1+ yrs
PostgreSQL • 1+ yrs
ClickHouse • 1+ yrs
BigQuery • 1+ yrs
Redshift • 1+ yrs
Snowflake • 1+ yrs
Metabase • 1+ yrs
dbt • 1+ yrs
Fivetran • 1+ yrs
Airbyte • 1+ yrs
dltHub • 1+ yrs
AWS Athena • 1+ yrs
AWS Glue • 1+ yrs
AWS S3 • 1+ yrs
AI-assisted coding • 1+ yrs
Agentic coding • 1+ yrs
Data pipeline design • 1+ yrs
Data pipeline building • 1+ yrs
Data transformation • 1+ yrs
Data versioning • 1+ yrs
Data quality • 1+ yrs
Testing • 1+ yrs
Monitoring • 1+ yrs
Troubleshooting • 1+ yrs
Problem-solving • 1+ yrs
Communication • 1+ yrs
Proactiveness • 1+ yrs

Experience

5-8 years

How this role is positioned

Role classification

Job domains

Software Engineering

Industries

Technology & IT

Employment

Full Time

Contract duration

Permanent

Hiring type

Direct

Global hiring

Location specific

Offer details

Compensation and benefits

Compensation

$60K - $80K per year

VisibilityShared on listing
CurrencyUSD
PeriodYearly

Location, schedule, and role shape

Work setup

Work conditions

Primary locationParis, France
Work typeHybrid
Global hiringNo

Bandwidth profile

peopleMedium6/10
physicalLow2/10
cognitiveHigh9/10
executionHigh9/10
creativityHigh8/10
uncertaintyHigh8/10
communicationMedium7/10

Context on the employer

Company snapshot

Company

White Circle

Team size

Growing team

Location

Paris, France

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of their platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. They automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale. White Circle has raised $11M from top funds and leaders, processes over one hundred million API calls monthly, and fine-tunes and trains its own LLMs.

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