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

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