ElevenLabs - Safety Engineer

Remote - Ireland, Japan, United States... - Europe *5mo ago

Remote Senior EMEA Cloud Computing Artificial Intelligence Security Engineer Python AWS GCP Docker Prometheus

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 • 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 • This role is remote and can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in Bangalore, Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Warsaw.

Responsibilities

• Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend. • 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. • 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.

Benefits

• What's the most impactful thing you've built? What was your specific contribution? • How did you know it worked? What did success actually look like? • Have you used ElevenLabs - even in a personal or side project? What did you build or explore? • What makes you excited about the ElevenLabs mission? • Which recent achievement are you most proud of, what did you do, and what was the outcome? This could be a any recent project you have built in or outside of your current work.