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# Devops Engineer at Playpower Labs

- **Company:** Playpower Labs
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/playpowerlabs/62f4ea5b-48de-4135-87ac-a38e5fb55bcb

## Job description

## About PlayPower Labs

PlayPower Labs builds software for leading EdTech companies that serve millions of learners. We help our clients solve hard product and engineering problems so they can deliver better learner experiences through advanced technology, thoughtful design, and reliable execution. We've been fully remote since before COVID and plan to stay remote. We are US-based, with a development center in Gandhinagar, India.

## What We Believe

- We believe technology is a force multiplier for education.
- Great software can make learning more engaging, effective, personalized, and accessible for millions of learners worldwide. The future of education will be shaped by advanced online learning, AI, and education data, and we want to help build that future.
- Education data combined with AI is opening up new ways to create adaptive, personalized learning experiences. We're here to turn those opportunities into real products that learners, educators, and EdTech companies can actually use.

## The Role

We're looking for a high-energy DevOps engineer who wants to own how real products ship and run, not just keep the lights on. You'll build and run the infrastructure behind products used by millions of students and teachers: AWS environments, CI/CD pipelines, containers, observability, and the security and automation that let a small team move fast and safely. Our platforms carry real load, real student data, and real deadlines. Back to school is a traffic event, not a metaphor. This role is for someone who can take a system from provisioning to production, secure it, monitor it, load test it, and keep it reliable without waiting to be told how. This role is open to candidates based in India (Indian residents only) and is fully remote. If you like automating everything, treating infrastructure as code, and using AI as a real engineering multiplier, you'll fit right in.

## What You'll Do

- Design, provision, and run cloud infrastructure across environments (dev, staging, production), and treat it as code: version it, review it, and automate provisioning end to end.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping fast, repeatable, and safe.
- Containerize services and manage orchestration, scaling, and deployments.
- Own cloud security: identity and least privilege, secrets and key rotation, network boundaries, TLS and WAF, and threat detection that actually gets triaged.
- Keep the fleet current: base images, runtimes, and dependencies patched and rolled out automatically, so nothing drifts onto an end of life OS.
- Harden the software supply chain: dependency and secret scanning, static analysis, private registries, and safe AI usage.
- Own observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting that catch issues early.
- Build backup and disaster recovery you have actually tested, including cross region and cross account restores.
- Run load and performance testing ahead of peak traffic, and turn the results into real scaling and capacity decisions.
- Treat other engineers as your users: golden paths, templates, self-service tooling, and docs that let product teams provision safely without waiting on you.
- Keep systems reliable: monitor uptime, respond to incidents, and reduce toil through automation.
- Watch cloud spend and take the easy wins before they become hard ones.
- Use AI tools, coding agents, MCPs, and automation to move faster.
- Bring energy, ideas, and momentum to a small team building real product.

## What We're Looking For

- 2-5 years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong with AWS across compute, networking, storage, and identity. Depth in GCP or Azure is welcome, but most of our work is AWS.
- Solid with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar), and comfortable reviewing it like application code.
- Comfortable with Docker and managed orchestration (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, or similar).
- Experienced building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
- Good scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar) and genuinely comfortable operating on Linux.
- Hands-on with observability and monitoring: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
- Real cloud security depth: IAM and least privilege, secrets management, credential rotation, network boundaries, and OWASP basics.
- Willing to be on the hook for production: monitoring uptime, responding to incidents, and writing the automation that stops the same incident happening twice.
- Fluent with modern AI dev tools and willing to keep experimenting as the tooling evolves.
- Startup energy: ownership, speed, curiosity, and no "that's not my job" attitude.

Bonus Points

- You've built or used MCP servers, agents, internal tools, or automations to speed up infra and delivery.
- You've used AI to improve testing, monitoring, incident response, documentation, or dev velocity.
- You've run load and performance tests at scale (JMeter, Gatling, k6, or Locust) and used the results to size infrastructure.
- You've been through a compliance or audit cycle (SOC 2, student data privacy, penetration test remediation) and automated your way out of the spreadsheets.
- You've actually restored from backup in a drill, not just configured one.
- You've worked on platforms with a hard seasonal traffic peak.

## What We Offer

Remote work, competitive pay, real ownership, space to experiment, and a small team that cares about building good products without corporate theater.

## About Playpower Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Playpower Labs creates next-generation learning products and provides software development, AI/data science, and design consulting services to large education organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Chandler, Arizona, USA (primary) and Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
- **Founded**: 2012 (originally started as a non-profit in 2009)
- **Founders**: Derek Lomas (CEO & Chief Learning Scientist), Kishan Patel (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Education Technology (EdTech), E-Learning, Learning Science, AI & Data Science Services
- **Target customers**: Large education organizations (B2B), schools, publishers, edtech companies; also directly serves students via own products (Math Planet)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Powering the Future of Learning” by producing best-in-class learning experiences based on cognitive science, machine learning, and human-centered design.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Paper**: AI-powered platform for paper-digital integration, enabling equitable large-scale assessments by connecting paper and digital learning. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
- **NeuroUX**: Mobile platform for large-scale cognitive and psychological data collection, offering cognitive tests and ecological momentary assessments for researchers. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
- **Math Planet**: Game-based math curriculum for grades 1–8, aligned with over 80 Common Core standards, designed based on cognitive neuroscience of math learning. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)
- **Consulting Services**: Software development (LMS, online assessments, dashboards), AI & data science consulting, user research + design consulting, learning game design and gamification. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$232,769 (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $120,000 (Pre-Seed round, June 2013)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: MacArthur Foundation (research grant), Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute; investors in Pre-Seed round not named
- **Growth Signals**: 73 employees (+11.1% YoY), 5,837 LinkedIn followers (+23.1% yearly), active hiring across technical roles, and expansion of service contracts with large education organizations

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scientific rigor**: Deep roots in academic research (Carnegie Mellon, published randomized controlled trials) and award-winning products (National STEM Game Competition, Marvel Educational App Grand Challenge)
- **Human-centered design**: Combines cognitive science, machine learning, and play-inspired design to create engaging, effective learning experiences
- **Proprietary AI technology**: Smart Paper and NeuroUX platforms offer unique paper-digital integration and mobile cognitive assessment capabilities
- **Experienced team**: 75% of workforce in technical roles, with alumni from top institutions and companies (Amazon, Oracle, Arizona State University)

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling consulting services for major education organizations while growing proprietary products (Smart Paper, NeuroUX)
- Deepen AI and data science capabilities to deliver actionable insights and evidence-based learning outcomes
- Expand global footprint (currently offices in USA, India, Netherlands) and strengthen remote/hybrid work culture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.3/5.0 on LinkedIn (43 reviews), with high marks for work-life balance (4.3), culture (4.4), and compensation (4.0)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Offers a remote work program and flexible work schedules; employees also work from physical offices in Gandhinagar and Chandler
- **Perks**: Free snacks and drinks, flexible hours, and a focus on learning science and innovation
- **Engineering culture**: 75% of staff in technical roles; stack includes microservices, Spring Boot, Selenium, HTML5, CSS, Figma, Git, Jenkins, Jetpack, JUnit, Postman
- **Growth opportunities**: 11% headcount growth, active hiring for specialists and managers; exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML in education

## Sources
1. [playpowerlabs.com](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/)
2. [playpowerlabs.com/about](https://www.playpowerlabs.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/playpower-labs)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/playpower-labs)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/playpowerlabs)

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