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DevOps Engineer

United Tech
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Kyiv· 2 months ago

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DevOps Engineer

Team: DevOps

Location: Kyiv

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

United Tech is a global IT product company shaping the future of real-time social connection. With millions of users across North America, Europe, LATAM, and MENA, we build next-gen mobile and web apps for live-streaming and social networking. Our platforms enable connection at scale fast, interactive, and deeply engaging. The market is projected to exceed $206B by 2030, and we are already leading the evolution. Founded in Ukraine, scaling worldwide

 

About the role: Were building a greenfield high-load media platform from scratch, allowing you to shape the architecture, choose the technology stack, and make key engineering decisions from the very beginning. This isnt about maintaining legacy systems—its about designing and delivering scalable solutions that will evolve from PoC into production

 

Youll tackle complex engineering challenges around WebRTC, low-latency streaming, SFU/TURN infrastructure, and scaling the platform to 300,000 concurrent connections and 3M+ requests per second. As part of a small, highly skilled team, youll have real ownership, fast decision-making, and the chance to build rare, highly valued expertise while making a visible impact on the product

In this role, you will

    • Design and build the infrastructure for a greenfield streaming/WebRTC platform, ensuring scalability, low latency, and high availability

    • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies to support fast and reliable releases

    • Manage cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters using Infrastructure as Code tools

    • Implement autoscaling, performance optimization, and load testing to ensure the platform can handle high traffic and peak loads

    • Build and improve the platforms observability by implementing monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions

    • Optimize infrastructure for performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency

    • Collaborate closely with backend engineers and product teams, contributing to architectural decisions and the evolution of the platform

It’s all about you

    • 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in production environments

    • Experience designing and building high-load infrastructure from scratch

    • Hands-on experience with streaming, WebRTC, or social/multimedia products

    • Production experience with Kubernetes, including scaling, autoscaling, and troubleshooting

    • Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible

    • Experience with AWS, including compute, networking, and managed services

    • Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or GitHub Actions, along with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD and Helm

    • Knowledge of observability tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, logging, and distributed tracing

    • Strong networking fundamentals, including UDP, RTP/RTCP, low-latency networking, and TURN/STUN (coturn)

    • Experience with load testing and performance optimization for high-traffic production systems

Would be a plus

  • Experience with media servers, such as mediasoup, LiveKit, Janus, or Jitsi
  • Experience optimizing bandwidth-heavy streaming platforms and improving infrastructure cost efficiency
  • Proficiency in scripting with Python, Go, or Bash

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
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    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
  • Final Interview
  • Reference check 
  • Offer

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