Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer (Real-time Media, WebRTC, Edge + Cloud)

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Build and operate a high-performance real-time communications platform that can scale to millions of users, focusing on production systems and resilient architecture.

Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer (Real-time Media, WebRTC, Edge + Cloud)
Job title: Platform / DevOps Engineer (WebRTC, Edge + Cloud)
 Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid/Office)
 Employment type: Full-time
 Experience: 5–12+ years (flexible for strong fit)

About the role

We’re building and operating a LiveKit-like real-time communications platform (WebRTC) that must scale to millions of calls with edge PoPs for ultra-low latency and multi-region cloud reliability. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role focused on production systems, performance, and resilience.
We’re especially interested in engineers who’ve seen scale in real-time/streaming infra.

What you’ll do

Own reliability and performance of signaling, SFU/media nodes, TURN, routing, failover, and capacity planning
Build and run multi-region Kubernetes platforms with secure networking and zero-downtime deployments
Design edge + cloud architecture: PoPs, global routing, failover, autoscaling, DR
Implement SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems, and operational excellence
Create strong observability: metrics, logs, tracing, and real-time QoE/latency metrics

  • Ship Infrastructure-as-Code and automation: Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD


Required skills

Strong production experience with Kubernetes at scale (multi-cluster/multi-region)
Strong Linux + networking fundamentals (UDP/TCP, NAT, conntrack, DNS, load balancing)

  • Experience with IaC + delivery: Terraform, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), CI/CD
  • Proven on-call ownership for high-availability systems


Nice to have

  • WebRTC/RTC operations: ICE, STUN/TURN, SFU scaling, packet loss/jitter tuning
  • Edge/PoP and traffic management experience (global routing, Anycast/DNS strategies)
  • Cost optimization for bandwidth-heavy workloads
  • Experience operating realtime/streaming systems at very high concurrency


What success looks like

You can keep a real-time system stable through traffic spikes, packet loss, ISP variability, zone/region failures

  • You think in terms of latency budgets, concurrency, bandwidth, packets/sec, not just pods and nodes
  • You build platforms that are observable, automatable, and easy to operate

Founded in 2019, the Apna mobile app is India’s largest professional networking platform dedicated to helping India’s burgeoning working class to unlock unique professional networking, and skilling opportunities. The app is currently live in 14 cities - Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Ranchi, Kolkata, Surat, Lucknow, Kanpur, Ludhiana, and Chandigarh. Having raised $90+ million from marquee investors like Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Lightspeed India, Sequoia Capital, Rocketship.vc and Greenoaks Capital, Apna is on a mission to enable livelihoods for billions in India. With over 10 million users, present in 14 cities and counting, and over 100,000 employers that trust the platform - India has a new destination to discover relevant opportunities.

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