Staff Backend Engineer

Cloudinary(1 month ago)

HybridFull TimeSenior$174,892 - $233,871 (estimated)Engineering

About this role

This role is for a senior backend engineer building a new Visual Moderation product within Cloudinary’s startup-like team environment. The position focuses on owning and evolving a large-scale backend platform that processes high volumes of media and runs AI/ML inference pipelines. The engineer will have architectural ownership, direct impact on enterprise customers, and responsibility for system correctness, scalability, and cost-efficiency. The team operates with strong ownership across the full lifecycle, from product definition through operations.

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Required Skills

Backend Development
System Architecture
Async Pipelines
Workflow Systems
High Throughput Systems
Media Processing
Multitenant Systems
AI Inference
ML Inference
Cost Optimization

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About Cloudinary

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Cloudinary is a cloud-based media management platform that helps businesses and developers upload, store, transform, optimize, and deliver images and videos via a global CDN. It offers on-the-fly image/video transformations, automatic format and size selection, adaptive bitrate streaming, and AI-powered enhancements alongside digital asset management and workflow tools. Cloudinary provides APIs and SDKs for many languages and integrates with common CMS, e‑commerce, and marketing systems, plus analytics, security, and compliance features. Companies use it to automate media pipelines, reduce bandwidth and latency, and improve user experience across devices and channels.