Cloudinary
The Staff Backend Engineer will lead the design and implementation of the backend architecture for Cloudinary's new large‑scale visual moderation platform. This hands‑on role involves building high‑throughput asynchronous pipelines, scalable multi‑tenant services, and ML‑powered workloads while ensuring performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. The engineer will own end‑to‑end delivery, make key architectural decisions, and collaborate closely with product and cross‑functional teams.
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2012
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.
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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