Staff Backend Engineer - Accounts
Quick Summary
The Accounts team owns some of the most critical infrastructure at the core of Cloudinary’s platform. We are responsible for managing the main product Entities across all Cloudinary products.
About the Team:
The Accounts team owns some of the most critical infrastructure at the core of Cloudinary's platform.
We are responsible for identity, access, and account management across all Cloudinary products - from authentication and fine-grained authorization to account provisioning and enterprise integrations.
Our work ensures secure and scalable access control, supports complex enterprise use cases, and powers internal systems relied upon by every team in the company. We collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product, Platform, and Security to deliver reliable and high-impact solutions.
If you’re passionate about building foundational backend systems that scale globally and support great challenges - this is the team to join.
Architect, design, and develop highly available, distributed systems and APIs at the core of Cloudinary's platform
Lead solutions for the business application platform layer with robustness, security, and monitoring in mind
Become a company-wide focal point for identity, access, and account-management knowledge
Lead by example, mentor peers, and ensure high standards of code quality
Work with product managers and business partners to frame problems within the business and product context
10+ years of strong back-end capabilities while working on a cloud-based, microservice architecture
Proven engineering leadership in designing backend solutions across distributed services.
Demonstrated experience driving change within an organization and leading complex technical projects
Experience with web technologies, and familiarity with scale, latency, and security concerns.
Expertise in high-scale, distributed cloud architectures
Experience working in AI-Driven Development, preferably SDD.
Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes
Experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or similar experience
Profound experience working with databases
B.Sc. in Computer Science or similar
Solid programming experience in Ruby and Go - Advantage
Advantage: Deep knowledge of authentication, authorization, and permission models
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- January 22, 2026
- First seen
- March 26, 2026
- Last seen
- August 23, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 150
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 33%
- Scored at
- August 23, 2026
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