Staff Backend Engineer

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Take ownership of the backend for a high throughput moderation platform, designing async pipelines and running AI/ML inference at scale with a focus on cost and reliability.
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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