- Professional
- Office in San Jose
Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time
Reports to: VP of Platform
The Role
As Nex’s DevOps Engineer, you will own our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and ML training pipelines. You will be surrounded by many mission-driven and highly talented people, and have a unique opportunity to solve problems in a variety of engineering areas, including ML, cloud, platform software, operating systems, and games. You will tackle many scalability challenges, expand our production and development infrastructure, and help developers maximize their effectiveness as the company scales. You will apply a product-development mindset to build infrastructure and tools for testing, development, deployment, and monitoring. You will spend most of your time understanding developers’ pain points, adopting new technologies, building reusable tools, automating critical workflows, and ensuring the smooth operation of our ever-expanding services and infrastructure. You stay at the cutting edge of DevOps and feel supported to improve how things are done at Nex.
The Mindset
You are a technology enthusiast and a strong programmer. You value repeatability, consistency, and simplicity. You seek every automation opportunity, eliminate toil, and believe processes and structures are best defined by code. You enjoy making other people successful. Our developers love using your products and are regularly impressed by your work.
What You'll Do
- Evolve and maintain our scalable, fault-tolerant global cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP to support an ever-expanding fleet of connected devices and revenue-generating operations.
- Operationalize development and deployment workflows for ML models, system firmware, applications, backend services, and games.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement solutions that eliminate development pain points.
- Drive observability improvements across monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Champion information security, regulatory compliance, architecture, and site reliability best practices.
- Participate in incident response and postmortem analysis.
Must Have
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps and cloud infrastructure.
- 2+ years of experience with serverless architectures.
- 2+ years of experience building fault-tolerant, scalable systems.
- 1+ years of experience in software product companies/startups.
- Deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, message brokers, containerization, orchestration, REST APIs, HTTP, and networking.
- Proficiency with scripting languages, command-line tools, and Git.
- Proficiency in English communication.
- Ability to work flexibly with global teams across time zones.
Should Have
- Curiosity about new DevOps and cloud technologies.
- Desire to dive deeply into problems.
- Motivation to help others succeed.
- Bias toward outcomes over opinions.
- Resilience and adaptability in fast-paced, high-performing teams.
- Interest in high-growth, high-tech consumer products.
Nice To Have
- Experience in Android, iOS, Unity, web, and ML development.
- Experience deploying mobile applications to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
- Experience with Cloud Run, Workflows, Step Functions, GitHub Actions, and Bitrise.
- Experience with Compute, Vertex AI, and ML training.
- Experience with cloud observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
- Understanding of information security best practices.
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!
