Kakao tech stack
Kakao builds mostly with Python, Java, Kotlin, C++. Its stack also includes AWS, Kubernetes, PyTorch, DeepSpeed. Python is named in 10 of the 27 job postings Kakao published in the last 12 months (37%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Kakao, updated Nov 11, 2026.
What programming languages does Kakao use?
Python is named in 37% of job postings at Kakao, followed by Java (15%), Kotlin (15%), C++ (11%).
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What frameworks and libraries does Kakao use?
PyTorch is named in 15% of job postings at Kakao, followed by DeepSpeed (11%), Ray (11%), CUDA (7%).
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What databases does Kakao use?
Amazon Aurora is named in 4% of job postings at Kakao, followed by MySQL (4%), PostgreSQL (4%), Redis (4%).
What cloud and platforms does Kakao use?
AWS is named in 22% of job postings at Kakao, followed by Kubernetes (22%), Amazon EKS (11%), GCP (11%).
AWS
6 22%
Kubernetes
6 22%
Amazon EKS
3 11%
GCP
3 11%
Amazon EC2
2 7%
Apache Kafka
2 7%
Kubeflow
2 7%
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What developer tools does Kakao use?
TPU is named in 11% of job postings at Kakao, followed by Terraform (11%), Docker (7%), Rest API (7%).
Terraform
3 11%
Docker
2 7%
Rest API
2 7%
Ansible
1 4%
CloudFormation
1 4%
Copilot
1 4%
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What AI and ML technologies does Kakao use?
LLM is named in 30% of job postings at Kakao, followed by AWQ (4%), Claude (4%), GPTQ (4%).
Which engineering practices does Kakao ask for?
Knowledge Distillation is named in 26% of job postings at Kakao, followed by Model Distillation (26%), CI/CD (19%), SLAM (19%).
Knowledge Distillation
7 26%
CI/CD
5 19%
Quantization
4 15%
Mixture of Experts
3 11%
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What other technologies does Kakao use?
Ethereum is named in 4% of job postings at Kakao, followed by Solana (4%).
What does each Kakao team work with?
The technologies each team's postings require most often, with the number of postings that require them.
AI/ML
11 postingsBackend
6 postingsDevOps
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How is the Kakao stack changing?
Read from the dates of the postings themselves: a technology is new when the first posting that names it appeared in the last six months, rising or falling when its share of postings moved between the last two quarters.
How modern is the Kakao stack?
Kakao scores 81 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 4; legacy ones: 0.
How common is the Kakao stack in its industry?
Share of the 1,389 companies in the same industries, whose stack Alion knows, that use each technology.
What sets Kakao apart
Companies with a stack like Kakao
Questions about the Kakao tech stack
What programming languages does Kakao use?
The languages named in Kakao job postings are Python (37%), Java (15%), Kotlin (15%), C++ (11%), SQL (11%), as a share of the 27 postings of the last 12 months.
Does Kakao use PyTorch?
Yes. PyTorch is named in 4 of 27 job postings (15%) and required in 4 of them.
What cloud and platforms does Kakao use?
The cloud and platforms named in Kakao job postings are AWS (6), Kubernetes (6), Amazon EKS (3) (postings in brackets).
What skills do you need for a AI/ML job at Kakao?
AI/ML postings at Kakao most often require LLM (6), Python (4), DeepSpeed (3), PyTorch (3), out of 11 postings in the last 12 months.
Is the Kakao tech stack changing?
Yes. Quantization, Motion Planning, Sim-to-Real, Vision-Language-Action first appeared in Kakao job postings in the last six months.
How modern is the Kakao tech stack?
Kakao scores 81 out of 100 (Cutting-edge). The score averages how current each technology in the stack is and adds weight for AI adoption. AI technologies in the stack: 4; legacy ones: 0.
How does Alion know the Kakao tech stack?
Alion reads every job posting Kakao publishes and tags the technologies each one names. The figures on this page count the 27 postings of the last 12 months and were updated on Nov 11, 2026.
Method and citation
Alion reads every job posting the company publishes and tags the technologies each one names. Shares count the postings of the last 12 months, open and closed; the company's own products are counted apart. How we count
Alion, "Kakao tech stack: 111 technologies from 27 job postings", as of Nov 11, 2026. https://alion.io/company/kakao/technologies