Safety Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for content moderation, abuse detection and agent 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 the product suite
• ▹Drive technical decisions and contribute vision to the safety roadmap for scalable, precise next-generation platform guardrails

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)
• ▹Track record of taking products or systems from 0 to 1 with measurable impact, including working alongside ML/AI systems in production

Nice to have

• ▹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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fast-paced, innovative company culture
• ▹Real growth opportunities beyond the immediate role
• ▹Annual learning & development stipend
• ▹Annual social travel stipend to meet colleagues
• ▹Company-wide annual offsite (past locations included Croatia and Italy)
• ▹Monthly co-working stipend if not near an office

About the company

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company that launched in January 2023 with the first truly human-like AI voice model. Today it serves millions of users and thousands of businesses worldwide, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises such as Deutsche Telekom and Meta. The company is backed by prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia, has raised $781M in funding, and was last valued at $11B.