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Safety Engineer (Backend Leaning)

ElevenLabs· Engineering & Product
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RemoteFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Safety Engineer focused on building and operating backend safety systems, including automated moderation, abuse detection, and guardrails for ElevenLabs’ AI products.

Responsibilities

  • Build safety systems: Design, develop, and scale automated moderation systems, abuse detection capabilities, and guardrails for AI agents across ElevenLabs’ products.
  • Respond to emerging threats: Partner closely with the Investigations team to identify emerging abuse patterns, understand evolving threats, and continuously improve existing safety systems, detection mechanisms, and guardrails to address new risks.
  • Own production infrastructure: Build and maintain a growing ecosystem of internal safety services, taking ownership of their architecture, deployment, reliability, monitoring, and ongoing operation.
  • Bring ML models into production: Partner closely with ML engineers to deploy and integrate fine-tuned and proprietary ML models into production safety systems, ensuring they operate reliably and efficiently at scale.
  • Build end-to-end solutions: Develop backend services, APIs, internal tools, and user-facing interfaces that enable effective moderation, safety operations, and policy enforcement.
  • Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Legal, and Safety Policy teams to translate business, regulatory, and policy requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
  • Shape our technical direction: Contribute to architectural decisions and help define how our safety infrastructure evolves as our products, users, and safety challenges grow.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
  • Strong backend engineering experience, including designing APIs, working with databases, and building scalable services.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with modern backend frameworks.
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
  • Comfortable owning systems end to end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Experience working across different parts of the stack, with the ability to build internal tools or frontend interfaces when needed.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and an ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and make pragmatic engineering decisions.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and non-technical stakeholders across different functions.

Skills

Required:Backend API designPythonDistributed systemsProduction troubleshooting and monitoringCross-functional collaboration

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: Dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
  • Learning & development: Annual discretionary stipend for professional development.
  • Social travel: Annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues.
  • Annual company offsite: Team gathering in a new location each year.
  • Co-working: Monthly co-working stipend for remote team members.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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