Software Engineer - Infrastructure

About the role

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.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain data pipelines, batch and streaming, that process 3B+ daily events. Reliability
• 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

What they'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

Nice 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

About Kuku (Kuku TV)