Senior DevOps Engineer
Kyiv
United Tech – DevOps /
Full-time /
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: Join us at the very start of a new product journey. You will be the one setting the foundation: designing and launching the infrastructure for a global streaming and WebRTC-based solution. We are not talking about maintaining legacy here: you will build high-load systems from scratch, scaling them to handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second, and shaping the architecture that will power one of our next top-tier products
In this role, you will
- Define and implement the best infrastructure approach for a streaming/WebRTC project
- Design, validate, and implement scaling capabilities to ensure product performance at 300K+ concurrent users and up to 3M RPS
It’s all about you
- Proven experience building and delivering high-load Streaming/WebRTC multimedia projects from scratch to production (LiveKit Cloud, MediaSoup, or similar SaaS/self-hosted solutions)
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and GCP
- Confident use of AWS services: VPC, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, EC2/ELB, S3, Route53, IAM
- Confident use of GCP services: VPC, IAM, Cloud CDN, Cloud Storage
- Experience with CI/CD: GitLab, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux/Werf, Terraform, Docker-in-Docker
- Deep understanding of deployment strategies: Rolling Update, In-place Upgrade, Blue-Green, Canary, Rollback
- Administration experience with Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ
- Experience with MongoAtlas, AWS RDS, BigQuery
- Familiarity with modern cloud-native observability tools
- Stress-resistant, proactive, strong communicator
- Ownership mindset: you think in terms of outcomes, not processes
What we offer
- Care and support:
- 20 paid vacation days, 15 sick days, and 6 additional days off for family events
- Up to 10 additional days off for public holidays
- 100% medical insurance coverage
- Sports and equipment reimbursement
- Team building events, corporate gifts, and stylish merch
- Financial and legal support
- 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
- Workspace rental reimbursement in other cities and abroad
- 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 Team
- Bar raising
- Reference check
- Offer
