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: python,streaming system,observability tooling,infrastructure,ml pipeline,infra-as-code,data pipeline,ci/cd,container orchestration,data processing