About this role.
ElevenLabs is seeking a back-end-leaning full-stack engineer to build and scale product capabilities around AI voice models used by millions of users. The role includes backend platform development, API and enterprise integrations, product improvements, and strengthening infrastructure for availability, performance, and security. Candidates need strong Python and backend engineering expertise, including system design, cloud infrastructure, storage, testing, and security fundamentals. The company emphasizes high-velocity, autonomous execution and cross-functional collaboration with frontend, growth, and sales teams. Formal credentials are not required; demonstrable work on difficult technical problems is the primary qualification.
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I would explain the original bottleneck, the expected load and reliability targets, the architecture changes I made, and the measured outcome. I would also cover observability, rollout safeguards, and trade-offs such as consistency, latency, and operational complexity.
I would start with clear resource models, stable versioning, consistent authentication and authorization, idempotency for write operations, and well-documented errors. For enterprise needs, I would add rate limits, auditability, webhooks, service-level monitoring, and a deliberate deprecation policy.
I use code review, automated tests, dependency and secret scanning, least-privilege access, input validation, structured logging, and security-focused threat modeling for sensitive paths. I also prioritize metrics, tracing, alerting, and documented operational runbooks so the service can be safely maintained.
I would first confirm the scope through dashboards and traces, then segment latency by endpoint, customer, dependency, and deployment version. I would inspect database queries, cache behavior, queue depth, downstream services, and resource saturation, mitigate the immediate issue, and follow with a root-cause review and preventive changes.
I would describe how I clarified the desired outcome, gathered evidence from the codebase and users, proposed a small testable solution, and communicated risks early. I would emphasize ownership, iterative delivery, and the concrete impact of the final implementation.
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses – from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world’s most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We’ve raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B – multiples of 11, always.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team – builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
How we work
High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
What we offer
Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact – beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location – past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.
About the role
We are looking for back-end engineers to expand the functionality of our system. There is flexibility in staffing engineers on projects across the company, depending on the project, your specific responsibilities might include:
Building and maintaining our platform on top of our cutting-edge voice models, which are used by millions of users.
Improving our existing products to ensure that they’re intuitive, powerful and make innovative use of our research team’s latest break-throughs. This could involve adding significant functionality, or building integrations with other common consumer/enterprise solutions.
Maintaining and strengthening our internal infrastructure as we scale and grow to ensure that our products remain live, performant and secure.
Collaborating closely with engineers and others from the Frontend, Growth and Sales teams to understand, and design solutions for our customers.
Requirements
We do not require any formal experience, certifications, or degrees. Instead, we are seeking enthusiastic software engineers who can showcase solving impressively hard problems with artifacts such as past projects, or GitHub contributions. We do require:
Expertise in Python.
A strong background in backend development.
Familiarity with common software and system design patterns and infrastructure including APIs, cloud infrastructure tools, storage solutions, data structures etc.
Knowledge about test design and security fundamentals.
Bonus:
Experience with Kubernetes.
Experience with Stripe or other payment processing providers.
Basics about how AI models work.
Location
This role is remote and can be executed globally. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.
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