Cloudinary

Staff Backend Engineer - Agentic Moderation

Cloudinary • IL
Python Hybrid
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