Cloudinary

Senior Backend Engineer, Media Processing

Remote Kraków, Poland
Ruby on Rails C++ Python Go TypeScript Rust AWS Kubernetes FFMPEG ImageMagick Deep Learning Kibana Datadog
Description

Senior Backend Engineer - Image Processing

Team: CTO

Location: Kraków

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: hybrid

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.
  • Contribute to the ongoing development of our Deep Learning platform, mainly in Python.
  • 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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