Senior Backend Engineer – Image Processing

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Cloudinary
Published
February 8, 2026
Location
Kraków, Poland
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Job Description

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.
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