Senior Edge & Backend Engineer: Scale Global CDN Delivery

Cloudinary; Kraków; On-site; PLN 210,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudinary in Kraków is seeking a Senior Edge Compute & Backend Engineer to join our Delivery team. You will drive feature development, maintain core codebases, and support our large-scale multi-CDN delivery platform across edge and backend services.

You will collaborate with frontend and backend colleagues, own end-to-end solutions, and contribute to on-call rotations. A strong data-driven mindset and hands-on experience with major CDNs are essential.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of backend engineering experience or demonstrated exceptional talent.
• Proven experience developing with major CDNs like Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai, or CloudFront.
• A self-driven, independent, and analytical mindset with deep technical knowledge.
• A data-centric approach to development, utilizing data warehouse and monitoring tools for insights.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solutions, guiding projects from initial requirements through to production.
• Act as a primary technical authority for delivery infrastructure for both internal teams and external partners.
• Develop and sustain internal microservices essential to the delivery platform.
• Integrate external services and partners while implementing custom in-house solutions.
• Engage in the team’s knowledge-sharing initiatives and provide 2nd-tier support, including on-call rotations.
• Resolve complex inquiries and technical questions from internal customers.

Skills

Backend engineering

CDN experience

VCL/JS

Data-driven development

On-call

Tools

AWS

Rust

Ruby on Rails

DevOps

Job description

Cloudinary in Kraków is seeking a Senior Edge Compute & Backend Engineer to join our Delivery team. You will drive feature development, maintain core codebases, and support our large-scale multi-CDN delivery platform across edge and backend services.

You will collaborate with frontend and backend colleagues, own end-to-end solutions, and contribute to on-call rotations. A strong data-driven mindset and hands-on experience with major CDNs are essential.