Staff Backend Engineer

Who We Are

We are building a new Visual Moderation product inside Cloudinary. The team is small, fast, and operates in a startup-style independent environment while owning the full lifecycle from product definitions to operations, with meaningful impact, strong ownership, and the backing of a stable company with a fantastic people culture.
What You Will Do
Own and evolve the backend for a high throughput moderation platform
Design async pipelines and workflow systems
Handle large media volumes and multi tenant workloads
Run AI and ML inference pipelines at scale with a focus on cost and reliability
Ship iteratively while keeping long term quality in mind
Operate with high standards in testing, reliability, and observability
Who You Are
Exceptional backend engineer with 10+ years of experience, including deep hands on experience delivering web based production systems at scale
Confident working across the backend stack. We use Python, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Temporal
Experienced with cloud environments, distributed systems, queues, async processing, and monitoring
Some basic experience with DevOps work is helpful
Great team player
Why This Role Matters

You will work on a backend system where scale, cost, and correctness all matter. You will have architectural ownership, direct enterprise customer impact, and the ability to move quickly without unnecessary process.

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