Website:
zooplive.com
Job details:
Dev Ops Engineer
Location: Delhi
Employment Type: Full-time
Experience: 1 to 2 years
Compensation: Up to ₹12 LPA
Work Mode: From office
About Zoop
We're building a live commerce platform. The basic idea: India has millions of small businesses (retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, resellers) who sell really well in person but struggle online. We give them a way to go on camera and sell live, the same way they would in their shop, except now anyone in the country can be in front of them.
Our mission, put simply, is to bring the bazaar online, one livestream at a time. It's a big space, growing fast, and we think we can lead it. We are backed by Peak XV & Lumikai.
About the Role
We need someone to keep our infrastructure running and help it scale. Livestreams are unforgiving: when something breaks, sellers lose money in real time and viewers leave. So a lot of this job is making sure that doesn't happen, and when it does, fixing it fast.
The work is a mix of three things. First, the boring but important stuff: deployments, monitoring, on-call, making sure servers don't fall over. Second, the building: setting up CI/CD pipelines, writing infrastructure as code, automating away things we currently do by hand. Third, the harder problems: figuring out how to make video streams reach a lot of viewers with low latency, without bankrupting us on cloud costs.
You'll work alongside our backend and ML teams. They'll write the code, and you'll be the reason it stays up.
If this works out, you'll grow into the person who owns infrastructure strategy here. That's a real possibility, not a recruiter line.
What You'll Do
Months 1 to 3: Onboarding & Ramp-Up
- Learn how our systems are set up, where the duct tape is, and why we made the choices we made
- Get familiar with our cloud stack (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes setup, and monitoring tools
- Take over routine deployments, monitoring, and on-call
- Find a few things that are obviously wrong and fix them
- Write down runbooks and operational procedures so the next person doesn't have to ask the same questions you did
Months 3 to 6: Ownership & Scaling
- Own CI/CD pipelines end to end: build, test, deploy, rollback
- Move infrastructure into code (Terraform or CloudFormation) so we can stop clicking around the cloud console
- Set up real observability: logs, metrics, alerting that wakes the right person
- Find places where we're overspending on cloud and fix them without breaking anything
- Partner with engineers on performance and scaling
- Lead incident response when production breaks, and run honest post-mortems after
6+ Months: Strategic Impact
- Design infrastructure that handles livestream traffic at our scale without falling over
- Tighten up security across the platform (IAM, secrets, network policies)
- Build internal tools that make our engineers faster
- Evaluate new tech (service mesh, edge computing, whatever) and decide what's actually worth adopting
- Mentor whoever joins after you
- Help shape where infrastructure is going at Zoop, not just keep it running
What We're Looking For
Must-Have
- 1 to 2 years of doing this kind of work professionally. We don't care much about which company, but we do care that you've actually been on call when things broke
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, well enough that you don't need to Google "how to set up a VPC" every time
- Docker and Kubernetes, used in production, not just in a tutorial
- CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, something)
- Solid Linux and Bash, the way you'd expect
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform mostly, but Ansible or CloudFormation are fine)
- Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, CDNs. If those words mean nothing to you, this probably isn't the right job
- Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, anything reasonable)
- The ability to debug a production issue at 2am without panicking
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with live streaming infrastructure (RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, LL-HLS) or CDN tuning. This is what we actually do, so if you've worked on it before, that's a big plus
- Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS)
- Databases at scale (Postgres, Mongo, Redis)
- Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateways
- Scripting in Python or Go for automation
- Some security background: secrets management, OWASP, basic SOC 2 awareness
- Previous startup or consumer product experience
- Open source contributions or a blog. Honestly, we just like reading what people write
What You'll Get
- Pay up to ₹12 LPA, depending on what you bring. We're not stingy, but we're also a startup, so this is what it is
- Real ownership. You'll build the foundation, not maintain someone else's mess
- Smart colleagues. The engineers here are good, and you'll learn a lot just by working with them
- Impact you can see. Your work directly affects whether a small shop owner in Lucknow can make a sale on a Saturday night
- A clear path to senior. We don't make people wait years for titles they've earned
- The usual startup tradeoffs. Fast pace, lots of context switching, more responsibility than your job title would suggest
How to Apply
Send us your resume along with:
- A short note on why this role interests you. Not "I'm passionate about technology". We'd rather know what you actually like about infrastructure work, or about livestream commerce, or why you're leaving where you are
- Links to your GitHub, any blog or writing, or projects you've worked on. If something on the resume needs context, this is where to give it
- Your notice period and earliest possible start date
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