Safety Engineer - Free Tier Abuse

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced AI Safety Engineer to drive the deployment and operationalization of automated moderation and guardrail systems that protect our platform and users across a multimodal space, with a particular focus on detecting and preventing abuse of ElevenLabs' free tiers.

• Design and build scalable backend infrastructure for abuse detection, 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.

What they're looking for

• Direct experience tackling free-tier abuse, fraud detection, or fake-account / bot farming at scale
• 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

Tech stack

• Python
• AWS
• GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• SQL
• Kafka
• React