Cloudinary

Senior Backend Engineer - Image Processing

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Kraków, Małopolskie, POL

Hybrid

100K-100K Annually

Senior level

Software

The Role

As a Senior Media Processing Backend Engineer, you will develop and maintain image transformation services, optimizing workloads and contributing to a Deep Learning platform, while providing support and maintaining codecs.

Summary Generated by Built In

Cloudinary is the image and video technology platform that enables the world’s most engaging brands to deliver transformative visual experiences at global scale. More than 2 million users and 10,000 customers, including Apartment Therapy, Bleacher Report, Etsy, Grubhub, Mattel, Mediavine, Minted, Paul Smith and Peloton, rely on Cloudinary to bring their campaigns, apps and sites to life.

With the world’s most powerful image and video APIs backed by industry-leading artificial intelligence and patented technology, Cloudinary offers a single source of truth for brands to manage, transform, optimize, and deliver visual experiences at scale.

As a Senior Media Processing Backend Engineer, you’ll be part of Cloudinary’s Image team, working side by side with frontend and backend engineers. You’ll contribute to feature development, code maintenance, and the operation of hundreds of production cloud servers.

The team is responsible for the core of Cloudinary’s main product. This includes the image transformation engines that process billions of requests per month (thousands of requests per second) and support all Cloudinary applications. Trusted by the world’s largest brands, our systems deliver high-fidelity media through flexible transformations with low bandwidth consumption and minimal latency.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain Cloudinary’s main transformation services in Ruby on Rails.
Optimize system workload, time, and cost.
Develop custom transformations using building blocks from the research group, open source, or commercial solutions.
Provide 2nd-tier support for our code and participate in team and company-wide on-call rotations.
Address internal customer inquiries and complex questions.
Maintain and update image processing pipelines, including open source, commercial, and in-house. Mainly C++

Technologies

You’ll develop in Ruby on Rails, C++, Python, Go, Typescript, and a bit of Rust, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Lambda infrastructure.
You will work closely with both in-house and open-source processing tools, such as FFmpeg and ImageMagick.

Qualifications

We’re looking for a highly skilled backend engineer with at least 8 years of experience or exceptional talent.
You should be self-propelled, independent, sharp, Knowledgeable, with experience in image or video processing, is a strong advantage
Experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS
Data-driven mindset, using insights from monitoring and data warehouse tools to guide development.

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Skills Required

At least 8 years of experience in backend engineering
Experience in image or video processing
Expertise in cloud technologies (preferably AWS)
Experience with data-driven development or analyzing large data sets

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The Company

HQ: Santa Clara, CA

488 Employees

Year Founded: 2011

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.