Staff Backend Engineer- Agent Experience (AX)

Cloudinary
Israel
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Ownership","Problem-solving"]

Senior backend-focused role building and operating production-grade APIs and agent-facing infrastructure to support AI agents and LLM-driven workflows. You will own multi-language backend components, design robust APIs and authentication, and ship reliable, measurable systems across a polyglot stack (Node.js/TypeScript, Ruby/Rails, Go) with AWS-like cloud instincts.

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Cloudinary
Cloudinary
3 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer- Agent Experience (AX)

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Job Summary

Senior backend-focused role building and operating production-grade APIs and agent-facing infrastructure to support AI agents and LLM-driven workflows. You will own multi-language backend components, design robust APIs and authentication, and ship reliable, measurable systems across a polyglot stack (Node.js/TypeScript, Ruby/Rails, Go) with AWS-like cloud instincts.
Location: Israel
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.

Key Requirements

  • •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).
Experience:10+ yearsAIAgent technologyBackend APIsMedia processing
Skills:CommunicationOwnershipProblem-solving
Tech Stack:Node.jsTypeScriptRubyRailsGoAWSOAuthAPI designMCPLLMAgent tooling

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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