DevOps Engineer

Nex is helping families reconnect with the joy of movement through fun, social, and interactive content that’s accessible to all ages. Its award-winning Nex Playground console, launched in December 2023, uses cutting-edge AI, mobile and vision technologies to merge digital and physical worlds, immersing players in the experience using their natural body movement. Nex Playground games range from original sports and fitness titles, to educational games and titles in collaboration with Hasbro and Sesame Workshop.

Since its founding, Nex has been recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has been awarded the prestigious Apple Design Award.  Nex Playground is also kidSAFE+ COPPA certified, highlighting the company’s firm stance on privacy and safety for kids and families.  To learn more, visit https://www.nex.inc or follow the company on Instagram and Facebook.

Location: Hong Kong or Remote
Type: Full Time
Reports to: VP of Platform

The Role

As Nex’s DevOps Engineer, you tackle the challenge of overcoming scalability problems and help development teams maximize their effectiveness as they scale. You use a product development approach to build infrastructures and tools for testing, development, and deployment. You own Nex’s CI/CD and cloud infrastructure and are exposed to all engineering functions, including ML, frameworks, embedded systems, game & app developments, and cloud development. You spend most of your time understanding developers’ pain points, adopting new technology, building reusable tools, and automating critical workflows. Our developers love your products and are regularly impressed by your work. You stay at the cutting edge of DevOps technology and feel supported to revolutionize how things are done in Nex. You report to the VP of Platform.

You are a technology enthusiast and a hardcore programmer. You are obsessed with repeatability, consistency, and simplicity. You consider every automation opportunity and insist that processes and structures are best defined by code. You enjoy making other people successful. Coding is your doorway to the world.

What You Will Bring To The Table

• A fighter who self-automates and multiplies into a squadron.
• New ways of thinking about processes and workflows.
• A variety of DevOps experience, knowledge, and skill sets.
• Infrastructure and tools that have a strong and lasting impact on the productivity and effectiveness of any fast-growing team.

Must Have

• 2+ years of experience in DevOps, Terraform and cloud infrastructures.
• 1+ years of experience with serverless architectures.
• 1+ years of experience with building fault-tolerant, scalable architectures.
• 1+ years of experience in software product companies / startups.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Native in multiple scripting languages, command-line interfaces, and Git.
• Proficiency in asynchronous and parallel programming patterns.
• Familiarity with relational and document databases, message brokers, containerization, HTTP, REST, and networking.
• Proficiency in English communication.

Should Have

• Fascination with new DevOps and cloud technology.
• Desire to help and make others successful.
• Willingness to dive deep into problems.
• Commitment to building useful products.
• Focus on results, not opinions.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with cloud monitoring and logging tools.
• Expertise in open source tools and frameworks.
• Experience in Android, web, Unity3D, and ML development.
• Understanding of information security best practices.
• Interest in venture business and startup life.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.

We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!