Staff Backend Engineer - Accounts

The Accounts team owns some of the most critical infrastructure at the core of Cloudinary’s platform.
We are responsible for managing the main product Entities across all Cloudinary products.
Our work ensures secure and scalable access control, supports complex enterprise use cases, and powers internal systems relied upon by every team in the company. We collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product, platform, and Security to deliver reliable and high-impact solutions.
If you’re passionate about building foundational backend systems that scale globally and support great challenges — this is the team to join!
As Part Of Your Role, You Will:
Contribute to architecting and strategy, design and develop highly-available management systems, with scalable distributed system considerations and APIs
Lead solutions for business application platform layer while keeping in mind robustness, security, and monitoring
Aim to be a focal point for company-wide source of knowledge
Lead by example, mentor peers, and ensure high standards of code quality
You will work with product managers and business partners to frame problems within the business and product context.
Your Qualifications:
10+ years of strong back-end capabilities - engineering leadership while working on a cloud-based, microservice architecture
Proven engineering leadership in designing backend solutions across distributed services.
Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization and leading complex technical projects
Experience with web technologies, and familiarity with scale, latency, and security concerns.
Expertise in high-scale, distributed cloud architectures
Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
Experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
Profound experience working with databases
Cloud experience (AWS is a plus)
Solid programming experience in Ruby
Advantage: Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, and permission models
Advantage: Strong knowledge in GO
Experience working with Generative AI technologies (GPT, Copilot, Cursor) is a plus
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