Staff Backend Engineer - Agentic Moderation
Cloudinary
Posted: December 22, 2025
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Quick Summary
Own and evolve the backend for a high throughput moderation platform, designing async pipelines and workflow systems to handle large media volumes and multi-tenant workloads, with a focus on cos.
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Job Description
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.