Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Kuku; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of your work

Competitive pay + ESOPs

Learning budget and certification

Job summary

Kuku is building the backbone of India’s leading audio/video content platform in Bengaluru. The infra team owns data pipelines, ML infrastructure, network infrastructure, platform tooling, CI/CD and observability to scale to 3B+ daily events.

You’ll contribute to container orchestration, infra-as-code, and internal tooling, enabling product teams to deploy faster with reliable, observable systems.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in backend or infrastructure engineering with production experience.
• Strong Python; write production-grade code, not just scripts.
• Experience with distributed data processing and streaming systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines—batch and streaming—processing 3B+ daily events.
• Work on network infrastructure and internal connectivity across services.
• Own ML pipeline infrastructure: data ingestion, feature pipelines, model serving infra.

Skills

Python

Distributed processing

Streaming systems

Infra-as-code

Container orchestration

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About The Team

Kuku is India's largest audio/video content platform - 3M+ DAU, 50k+ hours of content, and over 3 billion

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 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

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LinkedIn: KUKU

Skills: communication,python,ci/cd