Staff Backend Engineer- Agent Experience

Cloudinary
Krakow
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Written communication","Distributed teamwork","Ownership in ambiguity","Curiosity"]

Build and evolve Cloudinary’s Agent Experience (AX) so LLMs and coding agents can reliably provision, authenticate, and invoke media capabilities. Own MCP servers and an agent-first CLI, harden the agent media path to prevent silent failures, and partner on instrumentation to measure agent success. Work across a polyglot backend using Node.js/TypeScript, Ruby/Rails, and Go, collaborating closely with Product and other teams on agent-first API and protocol design.

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Cloudinary
Cloudinary
2 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer- Agent Experience

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Job Summary

Build and evolve Cloudinary’s Agent Experience (AX) so LLMs and coding agents can reliably provision, authenticate, and invoke media capabilities. Own MCP servers and an agent-first CLI, harden the agent media path to prevent silent failures, and partner on instrumentation to measure agent success. Work across a polyglot backend using Node.js/TypeScript, Ruby/Rails, and Go, collaborating closely with Product and other teams on agent-first API and protocol design.
Location: Krakow
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build agent-facing surfaces including API-first account provisioning, machine-to-machine authentication, scoped credentials, and agent identity and attribution.
  • •Own MCP servers and an agent-first CLI so coding agents and LLMs can discover and invoke Cloudinary reliably.
  • •Harden the agent media path by making uploads and core media operations reliable for non-human callers.
  • •Make agent behavior measurable by partnering on instrumentation, signals, and attribution.
  • •Work across a polyglot backend and ship, measure, and iterate while representing the agent’s perspective in product decisions.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years building and operating production APIs, SDKs, and backend systems at scale.
  • •Strong experience with Node.js/TypeScript, comfortable ramping on Ruby/Rails and/or Go.
  • •Deep understanding of API and protocol design fundamentals including authentication, versioning, idempotency, and rate limiting.
  • •Solid distributed-systems and cloud instincts (AWS or equivalent).
  • •Strong written communication for machine consumers and distributed teammates.
Experience:10+ years
Skills:OwnershipWritten communicationDistributed teamworkOwnership in ambiguityCuriosity
Tech Stack:Node.jsTypeScriptRubyRailsGoAWSOAuthAPI keysMCPModel Context ProtocolLLM tool/function-callingCLIAPI-first

Company Brief

Cloudinary
Provides a cloud-based image and video management platform with APIs and tools for uploading, storing, transforming, optimizing and delivering rich media at scale for developers, marketers, and digital teams.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Santa Clara, United States
Founded: 2012
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