ElevenLabs
Safety Engineer (Backend Leaning)
United Kingdom +10 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- United Kingdom
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Tokyo
United States
New York
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Poland
London
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Washington, D.C. - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
About the job
Build and operate backend-leaning safety systems, moderation tools, and AI-agent guardrails across ElevenLabs products.
What you'll do
- Design and scale automated moderation, abuse detection, and safety guardrails; respond to emerging threats with the Investigations team.
- Own production safety services, including architecture, deployment, reliability, monitoring, and integration of ML models.
- Build backend services, APIs, tools, and interfaces, and collaborate across Product, Legal, and Safety Policy to deliver scalable safety solutions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience designing APIs, working with databases, and building scalable services.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with modern backend frameworks.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
Nice to have
- Experience in Trust & Safety, moderation, fraud detection, abuse prevention, AI-agent guardrails, or production ML integration.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, AWS/GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, React, Kafka, or Redis.
Tools
Python, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, AWS/GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, React
AI focus
Deploy and integrate fine-tuned and proprietary ML models into production safety systems, and build guardrails for AI agents.
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