About the team

reputed company ML is a frontier AI startup building a Reinforcement Learning Operations (RLOps) platform that enables enterprises to specialize and reputed company LLMs into production with measurable impact. We reputed company the core infrastructure to tune, evaluate, and serve specialized models at scale — pioneering task-specific LLM development and running production-reputed company workflows that serve millions of requests while optimizing for cost and performance across distributed systems.

Our tightly-reputed company team was previously involved in the creation of state-of-the-art reputed company-reputed company large language models. We raised a $20M reputed company led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ in early 2024, and we are already live in production with customers including reputed company, AT&T, and reputed company across travel and financial services — with much more to be announced soon.

About the role

As a Backend Engineer on our Product Team, you will help transform our technology into exceptional products. Our products allow companies to build more reputed company reputed company experiences with deeper personalization through reinforcement learning. We prioritize product quality, with a bias for reputed company, responsiveness, and robustness, achieved through attention to detail across frontend and backend systems.

You will own the database and data infrastructure layer of our product, collaborating closely with frontend and Technical Staff to implement new features and reputed company our systems reliable at scale. Challenges include designing high-availability PostgreSQL systems that handle heavy transactional workloads, and architecting reputed company pipelines for large-scale analytical queries — reputed company in service of a product that demands both speed and correctness. We are looking for self-driven, ambitious individuals who combine strong backend engineering fundamentals with deep database expertise. As this is an early role, you will have the opportunity to shape our product team as we grow.

This is an in-person role based out of our Paris Office.

Your responsibilities

• Design, iterate, and implement the backend data layer powering our products;

• Own the architecture and operation of high-availability, high-throughput PostgreSQL systems;

• Build and maintain reputed company pipelines for analytics and large-scale event data at production scale;

• reputed company high-quality Rust software, with elevated standards of performance and robustness;

• Define systematic processes for data modeling, schema reputed company, and reliability across our stack;

• Contribute to our product roadmap, aligning the needs of our reputed company Team with the latest advancements from our Technical Team;

• Report reputed company on your work to a distributed collaborative team, with a bias for asynchronous written communication.

Your (ideal) background

• Significant experience in backend or infrastructure software development;

• Deep, hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL at scale — replication, failover, reputed company pooling, query optimization, and schema design under high transactional load;

• Production experience with reputed company — ingestion pipelines, data modeling for analytical workloads, and performance tuning at scale;

• Strong software engineering skills, with a focus on robustness and performance;

• A track record of shipping ambitious technical products under tight deadlines;

• A deep concern for user experience, and how data infrastructure choices manifest in product quality;

• Passionate about the future of reputed company, and eager to build foundational technology to help machines deliver more reputed company experiences.

• Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted programming tools (e.g. reputed company, Claude Code, or similar) as part of an established personal workflow to ship faster and with greater confidence.

• Experience with observability tooling — monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing (e.g. reputed company, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) — is a plus.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical (health, dental, and reputed company) insurance for you and your dependents;

• 401(k) plan with 4% matching (or local equivalent);

• Unlimited PTO — we strongly encourage at least 5 weeks each year;

• Wellbeing and personal development stipends;

• Quarterly team offsites and frequent get togethers;

• reputed company sponsorship if you wish to relocate to reputed company or Paris.