We are looking for a Middle DevOps Engineer to join our backend team behind one of the most powerful live-streaming platforms in the industry. You will keep our high-load infrastructure fast, reliable, and cost-efficient while working hand-in-hand with backend engineers on a system built to serve a massive global audience in real time. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, isn't afraid to dig into the product's architecture, and is genuinely curious about using AI tools to work smarter, not just faster.
About our product: We are building one of the most powerful live-streaming platforms, already connecting 400K+ monthly active users through live events, interactive video chats, and real-time community experiences. Our mission is bold: bring joy, fight loneliness, and deliver safe, ad-free entertainment that keeps people coming back. This is a complex, fast-moving space, and we love it that way! So, you will join a passionate, expert team tackling everything from scaling AI-powered recommendations to launching high-impact, data-driven features that boost monetization and engagement. Every idea counts here, and every release reaches a massive global audience. We are now expanding into Arab countries and Europe, enhancing content quality, and rolling out new features to keep users hooked. We are among the Top 5 streaming products in the US and rank in the Top 10 worldwide. Our next milestone: break into the global Top 5, and we are moving fast to make it happen. Are you in?
In this role, you will
Keep our Kubernetes infrastructure smooth and self-healing, maintaining manifests that power a high-load, real-time product
Fine-tune Karpenter so our nodes scale up and down exactly when they need to, no waste, no lag
Build the alerting nervous system of our infra, piping critical issues straight to Slack before they become incidents
Design Grafana dashboards that give the team a clear, real-time view of both tech health and product metrics
Set up Firebase alerts for Cloud Functions to catch issues at the source
Roll out Artifactory (e.g. JFrog) and unlock automated testing on CI, making releases faster and safer
Own cost control and optimization, turning infrastructure spend into a metric you actively improve
Connect the dots between Gitlab, Slack, and Approvals, and stand up a self-hosted Sentry to give the team full visibility into what's breaking and why
It’s all about you
3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in production environments
Solid experience with AWS services: EC2, ECR, EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, Route53
Experience supporting a self-hosted Kafka cluster and building custom monitoring metrics
Strong Terraform configuration skills
Hands-on experience with K8s, Flux, Kustomize, Helm setup
Experience with Gitlab pipelines
Experience with infra monitoring and alerting tools
Practical AI knowledge and active hands-on use of AI tools (e.g. Claude) in daily work
Would be a plus
Well-organized and result-oriented, able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines
Proactive, able to learn fast, strong critical thinking
Experience with Node.js
What we offer
- Care and support:
20 paid vacation days, 15 sick leave days, and 6 additional days off for family events
100% medical insurance coverage
Sports and equipment reimbursement
Team building events, corporate gifts, and stylish merch
Financial and legal support
Maternity Recovery Support Allowance
Position retention and support for those who join the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Participation in social initiatives supporting Ukraine
- Comfortable working environment:
Work from our Kyiv hub or remotely with a flexible schedule
Modern equipment or depreciation of your own tools
- Investment in your future:
Collaborate with a highly-skilled team of Middle & Senior professionals, sharing practical cases and expertise in the social networking niche
70% of our heads and leads have grown into their roles here – so can you!
Performance-oriented reviews and Individual Development Plans (IDPs)
Reimbursement for professional courses and English classes
Corporate library, book club, and knowledge-sharing events
Hiring process
Intro call
Technical interview
Interview with Hiring Manager
Reference check
Offer
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in production environments
- AWS services: EC2, ECR, EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, Route53
- Support for a self-hosted Kafka cluster and building custom monitoring metrics
- Strong Terraform configuration skills
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Flux, Kustomize, Helm
- Experience with GitLab pipelines
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Firebase alerts, custom monitoring)
- Practical AI knowledge and active hands-on use of AI tools (e.g., Claude) in daily work
- Experience tuning Karpenter and autoscaling node pools
- Experience with CI artifact management (Artifactory/JFrog) and automated testing integration
- Experience setting up or operating self-hosted Sentry and integrations with GitLab/Slack/Approvals
- Well-organized, result-oriented, proactive, fast learner, strong critical thinking
- Experience with Node.js
What We Do
United Tech is a Ukrainian product IT company that develops its own mobile and web products in the social networking niche. Our brands are growing rapidly and attracting leading positions in their categories, influencing modern approaches to development and ambitious goals of our teams. For almost 5 years, United Tech team has been creating applications that are used by millions of users around the world. Our products’ primary market is Tier-1 region, including but not limited to USA, UK, Canada and leading European countries. Niches that cover our expertise: - social networking; - big data & analytics; - performance marketing; - payment solutions; - mobile apps.
