Full-Stack Engineer (Backend Leaning) - Platform Engineering
ElevenLabs
Summary
Core Platform builds the foundations every other team at ElevenLabs builds on: how users, workspaces and permissions work across our products. Our systems sit on the path of every request and are relied on by millions of users and by enterprise customers, so correctness, security and safe rollout matter as much as speed.
Job description
About the role
Core Platform builds the foundations every other team at ElevenLabs builds on: how users, workspaces and permissions work across our products. Our systems sit on the path of every request and are relied on by millions of users and by enterprise customers, so correctness, security and safe rollout matter as much as speed.
We are hiring full stack engineers (backend leaning) for two focus areas. Depending on the team you join, your responsibilities might include:
Workspaces & User Management (serving external customers)
- Building and improving the building blocks customers touch directly: API keys, login experience, analytics, admin tooling, workspace security and more
- Working closely with Sales, FDEs and customer teams to turn enterprise and self-serve feedback into the right improvements, and helping large customers with complex organisational structures
- Shipping customer-facing features end to end, from backend services to the admin and settings UI
Permissions & Resources (serving ElevenLabs engineering teams)
- Designing and building generic resource and permissioning services that product teams use to build features safely and quickly
- Solving hard, largely greenfield problems at scale, for example how a customer with a million agents assigns and manages access
- Working across product teams to understand their needs, and driving adoption with changes that don't require every team to rework their code
In both teams you will:
- Scope work as part of a large existing system: understand what exists, what could go wrong on rollout, whether a migration is needed, and how downstream teams are affected
- Roll out changes safely and with minimal disruption to existing users, teams or systems
- Debug and operate what you build, working from customer reports, logs and code
- Own features from scoping to completion, with the support of experienced engineers who are happy to mentor
Requirements
- Expertise in Python
- Strong background in backend development, with comfort working across the stack
- Experience with common software and system design patterns and infrastructure, including APIs, cloud infrastructure tools, storage solutions and data structures
- Strong test design and security fundamentals
- Care and attention to detail when changing live, business-critical systems
- Ability to learn a large existing codebase quickly
- Comfort with ambiguity: working out what should be built, and prioritising among competing signals
- Bonus: Experience with authentication, authorization or permissioning (OAuth, SSO/SCIM, RBAC or similar)
- Bonus: Experience with Kubernetes
- Bonus: Experience building internal platforms or services used by other engineering teams
Benefits
- Professional Development Stipend
- Social Travel Stipend
- Annual Team Offsite
- Monthly Co-working Stipend
Company overview
ElevenLabs is a pioneering artificial intelligence company specializing in advanced voice technology and speech synthesis solutions. Founded in 2022 by former Google machine learning engineer Piotr Dąbkowski and ex-Palantir deployment strategist Mati Staniszewski, the company has rapidly emerged as a leader in AI-powered voice generation. Headquartered in London, ElevenLabs develops cutting-edge deep learning models that produce remarkably natural-sounding speech with emotional nuance and contextual awareness. The company's flagship products include text-to-speech software capable of synthesizing vocal emotion and intonation, voice cloning technology, AI dubbing tools supporting over 20 languages, and conversational AI platforms for creating interactive voice agents. With a valuation reaching $11 billion and backing from prominent investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, ElevenLabs serves over one million registered users worldwide. The company's technology enables applications across content creation, audiobook production, multimedia localization, and interactive voice interfaces, while also developing detection tools to identify AI-generated audio and address ethical concerns surrounding voice cloning technology.