Cloudinary empowers companies to deliver exceptional digital experiences by managing the entire media lifecycle at scale. Within Cloudinary’s R&D, the Research Group leads the development of cutting-edge algorithms for media understanding, generation, and optimization. We are seeking an experienced Staff Backend Engineer to lead the engineering efforts behind our homegrown platform for serving and operating production-grade AI models and AI based algorithms. This is a mission-critical role for someone passionate about building highly-scalable, GPU-aware, cloud-native systems that act as the connective tissue between algorithm research and product innovation. You will play a pivotal part in re-designing and evolving the platform, while supporting both research and application teams across the organization, and contributing to MLOps initiatives.