Senior Backend Engineer - Image Processing

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 result, the most engaging brands across all industries are seeing up to a 203% ROI using Cloudinary with benefits including faster time to market, higher user satisfaction and increased engagement and conversions.
As a Senior Media Processing Backend Engineer, you’ll join Cloudinary’s Image team with both frontend and backend engineers.Together, we develop features, maintain existing code, and manage over 300 production cloud servers.
The team is responsible for the core of Cloudinary’s main product, which generates over $100M ARR. This includes the image transformation engine and deep learning engines. These engines process 5 billion requests/mo (~2000 requests/sec). They serve the various Cloudinary applications. The world’s biggest brands are our customers. They rely on us to serve the media for the websites in a variety of modular transformations, high fidelity media, low bandwidth, and low 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 codecs and filters, including open source, commercial, and homegrown codecs (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’ll also use FFMPEG and ImageMagick for media processing.

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, smart.
• knowledgeable, with experience in image or video processing is a strong advantage
• Additionally, expertise in cloud technologies (preferably AWS) and data-driven development or analyzing large data sets using tools like Kibana/DataDog is highly valued.