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 workplace
- 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!

📌 Software Engineer - Infrastructure (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kuku FM
📍 Bengaluru