ElevenLabs

Safety Engineer

ElevenLabs

Posted 10 hours ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Location

Completely Remote

Requirements

Backend Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, DevOps, Observability

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for content moderation, abuse detection and agents guardrails, deploying AI/ML models into production systems
  • Architect robust APIs, data pipelines, and service architectures supporting real-time and batch moderation workflows
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems; establish SLIs, SLOs, and performance benchmarks
  • Partner with ML engineers to translate research models into production-ready systems and integrate them across our product suite
  • Drive technical decisions and contribute vision to the safety roadmap on how the next generation of platform guardrails should be built for scale and precision.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of backend software engineering experience building production systems at scale
  • Strong production backend experience: distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and Python expertise (asynchronous Python, backend frameworks)
  • Infrastructure & DevOps proficiency: cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containerization (Docker/K8s), CI/CD pipelines
  • Observability mindset with experience in monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) and building observable systems
  • Track record of taking products or systems from 0→1 with measurable impact, including deploying or working alongside ML/AI systems in production

Preferred Qualifications

  • Trust & Safety, Content Moderation, or Integrity engineering experience
  • MLOps experience: deployment, monitoring, and versioning of ML models
  • Experience with SQL, data analysis tools, real-time streaming systems (Kafka, Redis), or event-driven architectures
  • Familiarity with React or modern frontend frameworks

Benefits

  • Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
  • Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
  • Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
  • Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
  • Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
  • Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.

About the Company

ElevenLabs is a research and product company defining the frontier of audio AI. Millions of people use our technology to read articles, voice over videos, and restore voices lost to disability. Leading developers and enterprises worldwide use ElevenLabs to build intelligent agents for support, sales, and education.

We launched in January 2023 with the first AI model to cross the threshold of human-like speech. In January 2025, we raised a $180 million Series C round, valuing the company at $3.3 billion. By September 2025, that valuation doubled to $6.6 billion as we surpassed $200 million ARR in under three years.

Our mission is to build the most important audio AI platform in the world, solve AI audio intelligence, and make information accessible in any voice, language, or sound.

Our core offerings are our Creative Platform and the Agents Platform, powered by proprietary Text to Speech, Speech to Text, and conversational AI models.

We are just getting started. If you want to work hard and create lasting impact, we would like to hear from you.

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