Safety Engineer (Back-End Leaning)

6 hours ago

Dublin, Ireland +7 moreSenior

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and scale automated moderation systems, abuse detection capabilities, and guardrails for AI agents.
Identify emerging abuse patterns with the Investigations team and improve safety systems, detection mechanisms, and guardrails.
Build and operate internal safety services, owning their architecture, deployment, reliability, monitoring, and maintenance.
Deploy and integrate fine-tuned and proprietary ML models into production safety systems.
Develop backend services, APIs, internal tools, and user-facing interfaces for moderation, safety operations, and policy enforcement.
Translate product, legal, regulatory, and safety-policy requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
Contribute to architectural decisions and the evolution of ElevenLabs’ safety infrastructure.

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 building and maintaining distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
Ability to own systems end to end, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
Ability to work across the stack and build internal tools or frontend interfaces when needed.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic decisions amid ambiguity.
Effective collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred experience includes Trust & Safety, content moderation, fraud detection, abuse prevention, AI-agent or LLM guardrails, production ML deployment, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, AWS or GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, React, Kafka, Redis, real-time data processing, or event-driven architectures.

Annual discretionary professional-development stipend.
Annual discretionary stipend for meeting with colleagues.
Annual company offsite.
Monthly co-working stipend for employees away from main hubs.
Remote work globally, with optional offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.

1,001-5,000 employees