Staff Backend Engineer
Key information
- Publication date:13 March 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Büessikon
Job summary
Join Cloudinary's innovative team to build a new Visual Moderation product. Enjoy a startup-style environment with strong ownership and a fantastic people culture.
Tasks
- Own and evolve the backend for a high throughput moderation platform.
- Design async pipelines and workflow systems for large media volumes.
- Run AI and ML inference pipelines at scale, focusing on cost and reliability.
Skills
- 10+ years as a backend engineer with web-based production systems experience.
- Proficient in Python, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, and Temporal.
- Experience in cloud environments and distributed systems.
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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.
