As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will design and evolve backend systems for a high throughput moderation platform, focusing on async workflows, AI/ML pipelines, and ensuring reliability and observability.
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Temporal
Cloudinary Santa Clara, California, USA Office
3400 Central Expy, 110, Santa Clara, CA, United States, 95051
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