Hybrid Data Engineer

at White Circle

• Job title: Data Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $80,000 - $150,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, SQL, Tableau
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Paris, France

About the role

• Data Engineer building data pipelines for AI Safety company. Handling petabytes of logs and creating a clean, reliable data environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a clean, stable data environment so all team members can access petabytes of traces, logs, and model outputs in the formats they need – without delays or manual extraction.
• Develop and run internal data APIs, SDKs, and tools that help engineering, product, and research teams discover, query, and use data without touching infrastructure.
• Monitor and improve data performance – from table layouts to query plans – so analytics and research workloads stay smooth as volumes grow.
• Manage data access and governance, defining and enforcing permissions, access rules, and security policies.

Requirements

• You’ve built or scaled a modern data stack – Snowflake, ClickHouse, event streaming – in a startup or similarly fast environment.
• You’re strong in SQL and Python and comfortable working with large, messy datasets.
• You communicate clearly and can work directly with engineers and researchers. Fluent English.
• A big plus: experience with Metabase, Tableau, or similar tools for internal dashboards.

Benefits

• 20 days of paid vacation
• 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