The Role
Lead the technical direction of Cloudinary for Builders, overseeing integrations, plugins, and operational needs, with a focus on innovation and product-market fit.
Summary Generated by Built In
We’re building Cloudinary’s next growth engine.
Cloudinary for Builders focuses on GenAI-native, builder-first ecosystems. Our job is to create the right technical entry points into Cloudinary: integrations, plugins, connectors, workflows, and new developer-facing products. The space is early, messy, and full of opportunity.
We’re looking for a Senior Technical Leader to act as the R&D Lead and de-facto CTO of Cloudinary for Builders. Think technical co-founder inside Cloudinary. You’ll own the technical direction end to end and build whatever is necessary to unlock this market.
We’re a small, fast-moving, highly autonomous team. No fixed roadmap. No Jira treadmill. No hard line between product and engineering. You’ll help define the problems, evaluate solution spaces, and ship the fastest way to test real value. Sometimes that’s a plugin. Sometimes an integration. Sometimes a workflow. Sometimes something new.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of Cloudinary for Builders, end to end, like a Co-founder & CTO
- Co-lead the pod with its GM, shaping both product and technical decisions
- Explore and evaluate emerging platforms (LLMs, builder tools, agent frameworks) and decide where Cloudinary should show up
- Design, build, and ship integrations, plugins, connectors, widgets, and other low-friction entry points for builders
- Own architecture, DevOps, deployment, and operations — whatever needs to be done, gets done
- Build pragmatically: ship what validates value, cut everything else
- Continuously adjust focus based on learnings and constraints in pursuit of product-market fit
Requirements
- 10+ years as a senior developer or technical leader, still highly hands-on
- Strong founder mentality: ownership-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, biased toward solutions
- Prior startup or founder experience is a strong plus
- Deep familiarity with developer ecosystems and active involvement in the dev community
- Proven experience building integrations, plugins, SDKs, or platform extensions
- Hands-on experience with GenAI and LLM tooling, including:
- LLM and agent integrations
- MCPs or similar protocol-based systems
- Tools, widgets, or workflows inside LLM environments
- Gemini Gems, ChatGPT tools, or similar extensibility models
- Experience with automation/workflow tools (e.g. n8n) is a plus
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, DevOps, and production systems
- Full-stack in the broad sense: infrastructure, APIs, systems, integrations (frontend polish is secondary)
- Curious, fast-learning, pragmatic, and biased toward shipping
Cloudinary is a leading cloud-based image and video platform. This role offers a rare chance to operate like a founder while leveraging Cloudinary’s scale, platform, and reach. Cloudinary for Builders is intentionally small and autonomous, with real freedom to shape both the product and how Cloudinary engages the next generation of builders.
Top Skills
APIs
Automation Tools
Cloud Architecture
DevOps
Genai
Integrations
Llms
Plugins
Sdks
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The Company
What We Do
Cloudinary’s mission is to empower companies to deliver visual experiences that inspire and connect by unleashing the full potential of their media. With more than 50 billion assets under management and 7,500 customers worldwide, Cloudinary is the industry standard for developers, creators and marketers looking to upload, store, transform, manage, and deliver images and videos online. As a result, leading brands like Atlassian, Bleacher Report, Grubhub, Hinge, NBC, Mediavine, Peloton, Petco and Under Armour are seeing significant business value in using Cloudinary, including faster time to market, higher user satisfaction, and increased engagement and conversions. For more information, visit www.cloudinary.com.
