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Problem Statement-Solution
Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.
One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.
About Koo
Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.
Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.
Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.
Founding Team
Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).
Technology Team & Culture
The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.
Technology skill sets required for a matching profile
- Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
- Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
- Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
- Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
- Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
- Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
- Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

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2. Minimum 6 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant
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5. Candidate must have Self experience in database migration from scratch
6. Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes
7. Should have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet
8. Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java
9. Working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.
10. Working experience on Cloud platform -AWS
11. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation.
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Job Summary:
As a DevOps Engineer at company, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.
Job Responsibilities:
● Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs
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● Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%
● Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities
● Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes
● Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization
● Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos
Job Requirements:
● B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience
● Minimum 6 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant
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● Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet
● Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to write scripts using any scripting language
● Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java
● Comfortable working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.
What’s there for you?
Company’s team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as
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● More than 100,000 Request per second on our edge gateways
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● 100s of TB of data on self-managed databases
● 100s of real-time continuous deployment to production
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● 100% OSS
e are looking for a DevOps Architect/Engineer with strong technical expertise and decent years of experience to join our IT firm. You will be responsible for facilitating the development process and operations across our organization. Besides, you should own excellent leadership skills to mentor and guide the team members.
To be successful in this job role, you should be able to streamline all DevOps practices. You should be able to review technical operations and automate the process using the right tools and techniques.
Your knowledge of the latest industry trends will prove beneficial in designing efficient practices. Moreover, you should be able to demonstrate excellent research skills and outstanding problem-solving abilities. If you possess the required skills, knowledge, and experience, then do write to us. We would be happy to meet you.
Responsibilities
- Simplifying the development process and operations
- Analyzing any setbacks or shortcomings in the operations
- Developing appropriate DevOps channels
- Setting up a continuous build environment to boost software development
- Designing and delivering efficient and comprehensive best practices
- Reviewing and managing technical operations
- Analyzing and streamlining the existing DevOps practices
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- Using the right tools and techniques to automate technical processes
- Handling all deployment processes
- Minimizing failures and troubleshooting any technical issues
- Implementing effective DevOps solutions
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline
- Previous work experience in the IT industry
- Complete knowledge of DevOps tools like Docker, Git, Puppet, and Jenkins
- Familiarity with the latest industry trends and best practices
- Basic understanding of cloud-based environments
- Know-how of software development, testing, and configuration methodologies
- Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, and HTML
- Excellent analytical and research skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to motivate team members
- Highly innovative individual
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- Good communication skills
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- Demonstrating multitasking skills
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- Ability to maintain the confidentiality of any sensitive information
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environments: AWS / Azure / GCP
• Must have strong work experience (2 + years) developing IaC (i.e. Terraform)
• Must have strong work experience in Ansible development and deployment.
• Bachelor’s degree with a background in math will be a PLUS.
• Must have 8+ years experience with a mix of Linux and Window systems in a medium to large business
environment.
• Must have command level fluency and shell scripting experience in a mix of Linux and Windows
environments.
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• Must enjoy the experience of working in small, fast-paced teams
• Identify opportunities for improvement in existing process and automate the process using Ansible Flows.
• Fine tune performance and operation issues that arise with Automation flows.
• Experience administering container management systems like Kubernetes would be plus.
• Certification with Red Hat or any other Linux variant will be a BIG PLUS.
• Fluent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook / Word / Excel).
• Possess a strong aptitude towards automating and timely completion of standard/routine tasks.
• Experience with automation and configuration control systems like Puppet or Chef is a plus.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (or container orchestration equivalent) is nice to have
Required Skills
• Automation is a part of your daily functions, so thorough familiarity with Unix Bourne shell scripting and Python is a critical survival skill.
• Integration and maintenance of automated tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working experience in source control tools such as GIT/Github/Gitlab/TFS
• Have experience with modern virtualization technologies (Docker, KVM, AWS, OpenStack, or any orchestration platforms)
• Automation of deployment, customization, upgrades, and monitoring through modern DevOps tools (Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc) • Advanced Linux admin experience
• Using Jenkins or similar tools
• Deep understanding of Container orchestration(Preferably Kubernetes )
• Strong knowledge of Object Storage(Preferably Cept on Rook)
• Experience in installing, managing & tuning microservices environments using Kubernetes & Docker both on-premise and on the cloud.
• Experience in deploying and managing spring boot applications.
• Experience in deploying and managing Python applications using Django, FastAPI, Flask.
• Experience in deploying machine learning pipelines/data pipelines using Airflow/Kubeflow /Mlflow.
• Experience in web server and reverse Proxy like Nginx, Apache Server, HAproxy
• Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience in provisioning & maintaining SQL/NoSQL databases.
Desired Skills
• Configuration software: Ansible
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Good experience on Networking Technologies like a Load balancer, ACL, Firewall, VIP, DNS
• Programmatic experience with AWS, DO, or GCP storage & machine images
• Experience on various Linux distributions
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps Server
• Docker management and troubleshooting
• Familiarity with micro-services and RESTful systems
• AWS / GCP / Azure certification
• Interact with the Engineering for supporting/maintaining/designing backend infrastructure for product support
• Create fully automated global cloud infrastructure that spans multiple regions.
• Great learning attitude to the newest technology and a Team player
Objectives :
- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
- Testing code written by others and analyzing results
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
- Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :
- Deploy updates and fixes
- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
- Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors
- Investigate and resolve technical issues
- Develop scripts to automate visualization
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
Skills and Qualifications :
- Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
- Proficient with git and git workflows
- Good logical skills and knowledge of programming concepts(OOPS,Data Structures)
- Working knowledge of databases and SQL
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
Looking for an experienced candidate with strong development and programming experience, knowledge preferred-
- Cloud computing (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Coming from a strong development background and has programming experience with Java and/or NodeJS (other programming languages such as Groovy/python are a big bonus)
- Proficient with Unix systems and bash
- Proficient with git/GitHub/GitLab/bitbucket
Desired skills-
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Experience in any scripting language (Phyton, Shell Scripting, Java Script)
- NGINX / Load Balancer
- Splunk / ETL tools
- Working on scalability, maintainability and reliability of company's products.
- Working with clients to solve their day-to-day challenges, moving manual processes to automation.
- Keeping systems reliable and gauging the effort it takes to reach there.
- Understanding Juxtapose tools and technologies to choose x over y.
- Understanding Infrastructure as a Code and applying software design principles to it.
- Automating tedious work using your favourite scripting languages.
- Taking code from the local system to production by implementing Continuous Integration and Delivery principles.
What you need to have:
- Worked with any one of the programming languages like Go, Python, Java, Ruby.
- Work experience with public cloud providers like AWS, GCP or Azure.
- Understanding of Linux systems and Containers
- Meticulous in creating and following runbooks and checklists
- Microservices experience and use of orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Nomad.
- Understanding of Computer Networking fundamentals like TCP, UDP.
- Strong bash scripting skills.
Why you should join us
- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives
- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)
- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment
What you will do
- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.
- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring operational excellence
- You will setup infrastructure on AWS that will be represented as code
- You will work on several automation projects that provide great developer experience
- You will setup secure, fault tolerant, reliable and performant systems
- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards for your team that are well documented
- You will set up systems in a way that are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience
- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums
- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)
You should apply if
- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals
- You have been working on cloud infrastructure setup, especially on AWS since 8+ years
- You have set up and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale
- You have experience in hardening and securing cloud infrastructures
- You have a solid understanding of computer networking, network security and CDNs
- Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and optionally Terraform
- Experience in building automation tools for code build and deployment (preferably in JS)
- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity
- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment
- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance
- You work well in a team to enhance your impact






