Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineer

General Intuition & Medal · New York City

The role

This role focuses on the reliability, scaling, and incident response for Medal's infrastructure handling billions of clips. The engineer will own the on-call rotation, drive postmortems, and collaborate with engineering teams to meet infrastructure needs. The ideal candidate has experience in startups and scale-ups, with deep expertise in infrastructure-as-code, Elasticsearch, GCP, and database scaling.

Location
New York City
Level
Mid

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  • Posted 57 days agothe first time we saw it

About General Intuition & Medal

General Intuition is a frontier lab building large action and world models, leveraging Medal's platform for gaming clips. The company recently raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation.

What you would do

  • Own the on-call rotation and incident response
  • Drive postmortems to prevent recurrence
  • Scale infrastructure to handle billions of clips
  • Work with engineering teams to meet infrastructure needs
  • Ensure infrastructure reliability and performance
  • Manage video ingestion pipelines and social features

Must have

  • Strong fluency in Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
  • Hands-on experience running Elasticsearch for user-facing features
  • Deep knowledge of GCP including Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging
  • Experience scaling and sharding relational databases like MySQL or Postgres
  • Ability to work a P0 calmly and communicate clearly under pressure
  • Experience with GitHub Actions in production
  • Comfortable in rapid growth startup environment
  • Judgment to distinguish durable fixes from temporary patches
  • Experience with incident response and running postmortems
  • Experience at startups or scale-ups
  • Ability to own on-call rotation
  • Experience scaling databases under pressure

Key skills

  • terraform
  • elasticsearch
  • gcp
  • kubernetes
  • vpc
  • iam
  • cloud logging
  • mysql
  • postgres
  • github actions
  • circleci
  • redis
  • rabbitmq
  • java
  • c#
  • c++
  • swift
  • kotlin
  • electron
  • react
  • redux
  • styled components
  • salt

ABOUT THE COMPANY General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time. We build large action models and world models that can perceive, predict, and act across virtual and physical environments. General Intuition builds on the strength of Medal, the world's largest and fastest-growi…

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