# Safety Engineer (Backend Leaning)

**Company**: ElevenLabs
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://elevenlabs.io/careers/a787e8ee-f1c4-422d-95f8-61ffd4eefb95/safety-engineer-backend-leaning?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_18b7ebad-6a3

## Description

We are looking for a Safety Engineer (Backend Leaning) to join our Engineering & Product team at ElevenLabs. As a Safety Engineer, you will design, develop, and scale automated moderation systems, abuse detection capabilities, and guardrails for AI agents across ElevenLabs' 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.

Requirements:

- 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.

Bonus skills:

- Experience building Trust & Safety, content moderation, fraud detection, or abuse prevention systems.

- Experience building guardrails or safety infrastructure for AI agents and LLM-based applications.

- Experience deploying and integrating ML models into production applications.

- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

- Experience with React or other modern frontend frameworks.

- Experience with real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, or technologies such as Kafka and Redis.

What we offer:

- Innovative culture

- Growth paths

- Learning & development

- Social travel

- Annual company offsite

- Co-working

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- backend engineering
- scalable services
- distributed systems
- cloud-based applications
- problem-solving

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD pipelines
- cloud infrastructure
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- React
- real-time data processing
- event-driven architectures
- Kafka
- Redis

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Source: [Apply at elevenlabs.io](https://elevenlabs.io/careers/a787e8ee-f1c4-422d-95f8-61ffd4eefb95/safety-engineer-backend-leaning?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)