Staff Backend Engineer - Moderation
Cloudinary3 months ago
Israel (city not specified)Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve the backend of a large-scale visual moderation platform.
- Develop high-throughput asynchronous pipelines for large volumes of images and videos.
- Build multi-tenant systems, cost-sensitive ML workloads, agentic moderation workflows, and AI-driven decision systems.
- Make architectural decisions and own the full development lifecycle from product decisions through deployment and operations.
- Deliver iteratively while balancing customer impact, long-term architecture, latency, cost, and operational complexity.
- Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Use agentic development and code generation while maintaining human engineering judgment, accountability, and code ownership.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders across the company.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience owning and delivering production backend systems.
- Strong hands-on coding skills and confidence working deeply in backend systems.
- Experience with Python.
- Strong experience building and operating cloud-based systems, preferably on AWS.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, queues, workflows, and production monitoring.
- Ability to work independently in a low-process environment, navigate ambiguity, communicate clearly, and take ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, and cross-company stakeholders.
Benefits
- Work in a small, highly focused, hands-on team operating like an independent startup within Cloudinary.
- Autonomy over technical and product decisions and freedom to build with minimal process.
- Direct architectural ownership and customer impact within a well-established, stable company.
- People-first culture with supportive teammates and emphasis on trust, communication, and humor.
About Cloudinary
Cloudinary provides a cloud-based image and video management platform used by developers and digital teams to store, transform, optimize, and deliver media at scale. It sells SaaS APIs and a digital asset management product with usage-based plans that integrate with websites, apps, and CDNs. Founded in 2012 and privately held, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California, and reports millions of developer users and more than 10,000 business customers worldwide.