Cloudinary is the media experience platform trusted by millions of developers and thousands of companies — from fast-growing startups to the world's largest brands — to power the images and video behind their digital exp…
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Full-time
Posted 7d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Build and optimize agent-facing infrastructure, including API-first provisioning, machine-to-machine authentication, and MCP servers. Ensure core media operations are reliable for non-human callers and implement instrumentation to measure agent success.
Requirements
Requires over 10 years of experience building production backend systems with proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript and familiarity with Ruby or Go. Candidates must have deep knowledge of API design, distributed systems, and a strong interest in LLMs and agentic workflows.
Full job description
Cloudinary is the media experience platform trusted by millions of developers and thousands of companies — from fast-growing startups to the world's largest brands — to power the images and video behind their digital experiences. Something fundamental is changing about who uses that platform. Increasingly, the "developer" calling our APIs isn't a person — it's an agent: an LLM, a coding assistant, an autonomous pipeline acting on a human's behalf.
Our Agent Experience (AX) R&D team exists to make Cloudinary the default media layer those agents run on. Our guiding principle is simple: make agentic workflows work flawlessly with no friction.
We're a small, fast, high-ownership team, and we're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to make Cloudinary work for agents — both by building new agent-facing infrastructure and by reshaping our existing platform for a world where the caller is a machine. Some of this is greenfield. Much of it is taking APIs, auth, and SDKs and making them ergonomic, legible, and reliable for agents.
It’s a problem the whole industry is still figuring out. You’ll help define what great API design looks like when the caller is not a human developer, but an agent acting on their behalf.
\nWhat you'll do
Build the surfaces agents call directly: API-first account provisioning, machine-to-machine authentication, scoped credentials, and agent-level identity and attribution.
Own our MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and an agent-first CLI — let coding agents and LLMs discover and invoke Cloudinary reliably, engineered for agentic callers: token-efficient tool schemas, machine-parseable output, and loud, actionable failures instead of silent ones.
Harden the agent media path — make upload and core media operations reliable for non-human callers, eliminating the ambiguity and silent-failure modes that cause agents to drop off mid-task.
Make agent behavior measurable — partner on the instrumentation, signals, and attribution that tell us whether agents are succeeding.
Work across a polyglot backend — Node.js/TypeScript for the agent tooling layer, with Ruby/Rails and Go in the core platform.
Ship, measure, iterate — prototype quickly, dogfood the experience, and represent the agent's perspective in every design decision. Work closely with Product, Ecosystem, and Discoverability across the AX team.
About you
10+ years building and operating production backend systems and APIs at scale.
Strong in Node.js/TypeScript, and comfortable working in (or quickly ramping on) Ruby/Rails and/or Go.
Deep API and protocol design fundamentals — authentication (OAuth, API keys, scoped permissions), versioning, idempotency, rate limiting, clean contracts.
Genuine curiosity about agents and LLMs and how they're reshaping how software gets built and run.
Solid distributed-systems and cloud instincts (AWS or equivalent).
A bias for ownership in ambiguity — you scope the problem, not just the solution, and you ship.
Strong written communication — it matters more than usual when your consumers are machines and your teammates are distributed.
Advantages
Hands-on experience with MCP, LLM tool/function-calling, or building AI-/agent-native products.
Experience building SDKs, CLIs, or developer tools that other engineers depend on.
Background in media, imaging, or video processing/delivery.
Open-source contributions in the agent or developer-tooling ecosystem.
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Cloudinary is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Cloudinary helps brands manage, transform, optimize, and deliver engaging visual experiences at scale.
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
201-500 employees
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Jose, California
LinkedIn followers
71,919
Total funding
$100M
Cloudinary’s mission is to empower companies to deliver visual experiences that inspire and connect by unleashing the full potential of their media. With 80 billion assets under management and more than 11,000 customers and three million users worldwide, Cloudinary is the industry standard for developers, creators and marketers looking to manage, transform, and deliver images and videos online. As a result, leading brands are seeing significant business value in using Cloudinary, including faster time to market, higher user satisfaction and increased engagement and conversions.
Offices: 6201 America Center Dr, San Jose, California 94089, US · 20 Aharon Bart St., Building C, 2nd floor, Petah Tikva, N/A 4951448, IL · Level 6, 88 Kingsway, London, England WC2B 6AA, GB · Singapore, SG · Kraków, PL
Cloudinary helps brands manage, transform, optimize, and deliver engaging visual experiences at scale.
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
201-500 employees
Founded
2012
Headquarters
San Jose, California
LinkedIn followers
71,919
Total funding
$100M
Cloudinary’s mission is to empower companies to deliver visual experiences that inspire and connect by unleashing the full potential of their media. With 80 billion assets under management and more than 11,000 customers and three million users worldwide, Cloudinary is the industry standard for developers, creators and marketers looking to manage, transform, and deliver images and videos online. As a result, leading brands are seeing significant business value in using Cloudinary, including faster time to market, higher user satisfaction and increased engagement and conversions.
Offices: 6201 America Center Dr, San Jose, California 94089, US · 20 Aharon Bart St., Building C, 2nd floor, Petah Tikva, N/A 4951448, IL · Level 6, 88 Kingsway, London, England WC2B 6AA, GB · Singapore, SG · Kraków, PL