Staff Backend Engineer - Moderation

Cloudinary
Israel
On-site

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 10+ years of backend engineering experience and a background in cloud-native systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of backend experience and a track record in cloud-native architecture
    — “10+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems”
  • Individuals who have led architectural decisions in high-throughput, distributed systems
    — “Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed”
  • Engineers with experience in asynchronous processing and ML integration
    — “Develop high-throughput asynchronous processing pipelines for images and videos”

Things to consider

  • The role requires strong collaboration across product, engineering, and business teams
    — “Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions”
  • Candidates must be prepared to define and lead engineering culture from day one
    — “Help define the engineering culture, architecture, and technical direction from day one”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in designing multi-tenant systems for enterprise use
    — “Design scalable multi-tenant services that support enterprise customers”
  • Emphasize your ability to balance long-term design and short-term delivery
    — “Excellent architectural thinking with the ability to balance long-term design and short-term delivery”
  • Showcase your hands-on development skills and code quality emphasis
    — “Leverage modern development tools, including AI-assisted development, while maintaining strong engineering standards and code quality”
  • Demonstrate your ability to own systems from architecture to production operations
    — “Take end-to-end ownership of backend services, from architecture and implementation through deployment and production operations”
  • Position yourself as someone who evaluates and adopts technologies with business value in mind
    — “Evaluate and adopt new technologies where they create real business value”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • design and build backend architecture for large-scale visual moderation platform
  • develop high-throughput asynchronous processing pipelines
  • design scalable multi-tenant services
  • build efficient systems supporting ML-powered workloads
Typical background
10+ years of backend software engineering experienceproven experience designing scalable, distributed backend architecturesstrong hands-on software development skills

Skills & requirements

Required

Backend Software EngineeringCloud-native ApplicationsDistributed SystemsAsynchronous ProcessingProduction MonitoringArchitectural ThinkingPython

Preferred

Ai-assisted Development

Stack & domain

Backend Software EngineeringProduction SystemsCloud-native ApplicationsAWSDistributed SystemsAsynchronous ProcessingMessaging SystemsWorkflowsProduction MonitoringCloud TechnologiesAi-assisted DevelopmentPythonCollaborationCommunicationDecision-makingProblem-solvingLeadershipSoftware EngineeringCloud Computing

About the role

Original posting from Cloudinary via Lever

Cloudinary is the foundational technology powering images and videos across the internet. Our platform enables companies worldwide to manage, optimize, and deliver visual media at scale through powerful APIs and integrations.

About the Team

We're building a new product within Cloudinary focused on large-scale visual moderation.

This is a fast-moving, high-impact initiative that is already gaining traction with enterprise customers. The team operates like a startup within Cloudinary - small, highly collaborative, and empowered to make decisions quickly while benefiting from the stability and resources of a successful global company.

We own the entire product lifecycle, from defining technical direction and architecture to building, shipping, and operating the platform in production.

About the Role

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to play a key technical leadership role in designing and building the backend architecture of our next-generation moderation platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role with significant ownership. You'll help shape the technical direction of the product, make architectural decisions that will scale over time, and work on systems where performance, scalability, reliability, and cost all matter simultaneously.

If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, working with modern cloud technologies, and building products from the ground up, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do:

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Design, build, and evolve the backend architecture of a large-scale visual moderation platform

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Develop high-throughput asynchronous processing pipelines for images and videos

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Design scalable multi-tenant services that support enterprise customers

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Build efficient systems supporting ML-powered workloads while optimizing for performance and cost

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Take end-to-end ownership of backend services, from architecture and implementation through deployment and production operations

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Make architectural decisions that balance scalability, reliability, maintainability, and delivery speed

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Continuously improve engineering quality through testing, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence

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Evaluate and adopt new technologies where they create real business value

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Leverage modern development tools, including AI-assisted development, while maintaining strong engineering standards and code quality

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Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions

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Help establish engineering best practices and raise the technical bar across the team

What We're Looking For:

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10+ years of backend software engineering experience building and operating production systems

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Proven experience designing scalable, distributed backend architectures

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Strong hands-on software development skills with deep backend expertise (Python preferred)

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Extensive experience building cloud-native applications, preferably on AWS

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Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, messaging systems, workflows, and production monitoring

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Experience designing highly scalable, high-availability services

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Excellent architectural thinking with the ability to balance long-term design and short-term delivery

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Comfortable working in fast-moving, low-process environments with a high degree of ownership

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Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business teams

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Curiosity, pragmatism, and a passion for building high-quality software

Why Join Us?:

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Build a brand-new product with significant technical ownership and influence

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Work on challenging large-scale distributed systems and ML-powered workloads

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Join a small, experienced team where your ideas directly shape the product

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Enjoy the speed and autonomy of a startup backed by the stability of a successful global SaaS company

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Help define the engineering culture, architecture, and technical direction from day one

Source: Cloudinary careers (Lever)

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