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Lead Software Architect

Cloudinary Israel 1 day ago

engineering

We’re building Cloudinary’s next growth engine.

Cloudinary for Builders focuses on GenAI-native, builder-first ecosystems. Our job is to create the right technical entry points into Cloudinary: integrations, plugins, connectors, workflows, and new developer-facing products. The space is early, messy, and full of opportunity.

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Leader to act as the R&D Lead and de-facto CTO of Cloudinary for Builders. Think technical co-founder inside Cloudinary. You’ll own the technical direction end to end and build whatever is necessary to unlock this market.

We’re a small, fast-moving, highly autonomous team. No fixed roadmap. No Jira treadmill. No hard line between product and engineering. You’ll help define the problems, evaluate solution spaces, and ship the fastest way to test real value. Sometimes that’s a plugin. Sometimes an integration. Sometimes a workflow. Sometimes something new.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction of Cloudinary for Builders, end to end, like a Co-founder & CTO

Co-lead the pod with its GM, shaping both product and technical decisions

Explore and evaluate emerging platforms (LLMs, builder tools, agent frameworks) and decide where Cloudinary should show up

Design, build, and ship integrations, plugins, connectors, widgets, and other low-friction entry points for builders

Own architecture, DevOps, deployment, and operations — whatever needs to be done, gets done

Build pragmatically: ship what validates value, cut everything else

Continuously adjust focus based on learnings and constraints in pursuit of product-market fit

Requirements

10+ years as a senior developer or technical leader, still highly hands-on

Strong founder mentality: ownership-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, biased toward solutions

Prior startup or founder experience is a strong plus

Deep familiarity with developer ecosystems and active involvement in the dev community

Proven experience building integrations, plugins, SDKs, or platform extensions

Hands-on experience with GenAI and LLM tooling, including:

LLM and agent integrations

MCPs or similar protocol-based systems

Tools, widgets, or workflows inside LLM environments

Gemini Gems, ChatGPT tools, or similar extensibility models

Experience with automation/workflow tools (e.g. n8n) is a plus

Strong understanding of cloud architecture, DevOps, and production systems

Full-stack in the broad sense: infrastructure, APIs, systems, integrations (frontend polish is secondary)

Curious, fast-learning, pragmatic, and biased toward shipping

Cloudinary is a leading cloud-based image and video platform. This role offers a rare chance to operate like a founder while leveraging Cloudinary’s scale, platform, and reach. Cloudinary for Builders is intentionally small and autonomous, with real freedom to shape both the product and how Cloudinary engages the next generation of builders.