DevOps Engineer

About Vumedi: Vumedi is the largest video education platform for doctors worldwide, dedicated to advancing medical education through innovative video-based learning. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals by providing them with access to the latest clinical knowledge and surgical techniques from experts around the globe.

We curate a vast library of high-quality educational content, enabling users to enhance their skills, stay informed about industry trends, and improve patient outcomes. We are headquartered in Oakland, CA , and have additional offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Zagreb, Croatia.

We're hiring a Senior/Staff/Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the development of our digital platform and products at this critical stage of Vumedi’s growth.

Why join Vumedi right now? Build technology that matters in a fast-scaling Silicon Valley digital healthcare company : Your work directly impacts how doctors across the world learn and make decisions that save lives.

Grow as we grow: Be part of a company in an accelerated growth phase, where expanding teams, products, and markets create real opportunities for ownership, leadership, and career progression. Build with AI : Work on applied LLM systems - from intelligent search to AI-driven content agents - and shape how AI transforms medical knowledge delivery.

Own your craft end-to-end : Take full responsibility for building systems that scale globally and power mission-critical workflows. Collaborate globally: Join a world-class team of passionate engineers on modern tech stack which will further drive your career development.

Have real product impact : Influence the direction of product development by collaborating closely with product and leadership teams.

About the role: We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of our infrastructure, deployment processes, and overall platform reliability. You will work closely with backend and data teams to support a growing video and data platform used by millions of healthcare professionals worldwide.

In this role, you will focus on improving our CI/CD pipelines, system reliability, and developer experience, while helping scale our cloud infrastructure in a secure and cost-efficient way. You will work extensively with AWS services (compute, storage, networking, IAM, monitoring) and help ensure our systems are reliable, observable, and well-architected.

You’ll also support and enable emerging AI/ML and LLM-powered systems used for large-scale medical content processing, helping build and operate the infrastructure required for these workloads. This includes improving data pipelines, optimizing resource usage, and ensuring production-grade reliability of AI-driven services.

This is a high-impact role with a broad scope—from supporting production systems and data pipelines to driving long-term improvements in how we build, deploy, and operate our platform, with strong ownership and autonomy in shaping DevOps practices.

, Postgres, Airflow is a plus) Background in backend engineering or software development Experience working in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment Experience leading and mentoring engineers, while contributing to team-wide best practices This is a hybrid role, working 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) in our Oakland office.