Developer Experience Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not Specified

ElevenLabs is seeking its first internal Developer Experience Engineer to enhance developer productivity, streamline workflows, and optimize tooling for its expanding engineering team.

About ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is a research and product company at the forefront of Audio AI. Millions use ElevenLabs for various applications, including reading articles, video voiceovers, and voice restoration. Leading developers and enterprises leverage ElevenLabs to create Conversational AI agents for support, sales, and education.

Launched in January 2023 with a groundbreaking AI model for human-like speech, ElevenLabs secured a $180 million Series C funding round in January 2025, valuing the company at $3.3 billion. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ Growth, with continued support from prominent tech figures.

ElevenLabs is a rapidly scaling, two-year-old company focused on high velocity, impact-driven work, AI-first practices, excellence, and a global team.

How We Work

• High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
• Impact not job titles: Focus is on the impact an individual makes, with no task being too small or too large.
• AI first: Utilizing AI across all company functions to improve speed and quality.
• Excellence everywhere: Maintaining a quality standard comparable to their AI models.
• Global team: Prioritizing talent over geographical location.

What We Offer

• Learning & development: Annual discretionary stipend for professional development.
• Social travel: Annual discretionary stipend for team meetups.
• Annual company offsite: Company-wide gathering in a new location each year.
• Co-working: Monthly co-working stipend for employees not located near main hubs.

Responsibilities

Your general responsibilities will include:

• Diagnosing and addressing bottlenecks in current developer workflows and tools.
• Standardizing local development setups, CI/CD pipelines, dependency management, and testing infrastructure.
• Serving as the internal expert on modern tooling, particularly NextJS, Python, and CI/CD practices.

Specific projects may involve:

• Reducing flaky tests.
• Establishing standardized local development environments.
• Creating processes for efficient adoption of new tools and workflows.
• Optimizing build performance.

Requirements

While formal certifications or degrees are not mandatory, demonstrated experience in improving developer productivity and tooling is essential, ideally as an early Developer Experience hire in a growing engineering organization.

We require:

• 2+ years of relevant experience in improving developer productivity and tooling.
• Strong expertise with modern developer tools, including Python, NextJS (or similar frontend bundlers), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven success in identifying and solving complex bottlenecks within organically grown codebases.
• A structured and proactive mindset capable of designing clear, intuitive, and sustainable workflows from ambiguous requirements.

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