Software Engineer - Infrastructure

About The Team
Kuku is India's largest audio/video content platform — 3M+ DAU, 50k+ hours of content, and over 3 billion
events processed daily. The infra team owns the foundation that makes all of this work: data pipelines, ML
infrastructure, network infrastructure, platform tooling, CI/CD, and observability. We're a lean team with
high ownership. What you build ships fast and operates at real scale.
What You'll Work On
Build and maintain data pipelines — batch and streaming — that process 3B+ daily events. Reliability
and cost matter as much as throughput.
Work on network infrastructure — service connectivity, internal networking abstractions, and
ensuring secure, reliable communication across our platform services.
Own pieces of ML pipeline infrastructure: data ingestion, feature pipelines, and model serving infra
that supports our recommendation and personalisation systems.
Work on platform problems: container orchestration, infra-as-code, and internal abstractions that let
product teams move without depending on infra for every deploy.
Set up and improve our observability stack. Define SLIs, own alerts, reduce MTTR. If something
breaks, we want to know before users do.
Contribute to CI/CD reliability: faster builds, cleaner rollouts, fewer incidents at deploy time.
Contribute to internal AI tooling — building or integrating tools that improve developer productivity
and automate repetitive infra and data workflows.
What We're Looking For
3 - 5 years in backend or infrastructure engineering, with production experience — not just side
projects
Strong Python; you write code that runs in production, not just automation scripts
Real experience with distributed data processing and streaming systems in a production environment
Hands-on with container orchestration and infra-as-code tooling
Familiarity with observability tooling — metrics, logs, traces
Some understanding of ML pipelines — you don't need to be an ML engineer, but knowing how data
flows from raw to model matters here
Good To Have
Experience with real-time streaming architectures
Exposure to ML infrastructure, feature stores, or data governance
Prior work in a consumer product company where data volumes are high and latency budgets are
tight
Contributions to open-source infra or data tooling
What we offer
Full ownership of your work — this isn't a support role
Competitive comp + ESOPs
Learning budget and certification support
A team that cares about reliability, not just velocity
About Kuku
Founded in 2018, KUKU is India’s leading storytelling platform, offering a vast digital library of microdramas, audio stories, and short courses. Kuku aims to be India’s largest cultural exporter of stories, culture and history to the world with a firm belief in “Create In India, Create For The World”.
We deliver immersive entertainment and education through our OTT platforms: Kuku TV, Guru, Kuku FM, and more. With a mission to provide high-quality, personalized stories across genres from entertainment across multiple formats and languages, Kuku continues to push boundaries and redefine India’s entertainment industry.
🌐 Website: www.kukufm.com
📱 Android App: Google Play
📱 iOS App: App Store
🔗 LinkedIn: KUKU
📢 Ready to make an impact? Apply now!
Skills: communication,python,ci/cd

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