About the Role
Medal's infrastructure handles billions of clips, video ingestion pipelines, and social features at a massive scale. The work centers on reliability, incident response, scaling, and ensuring our infrastructure keeps up with our growth. You'll own the on-call rotation, drive postmortems, and work directly with engineering teams to meet their infra needs.
Responsibilities
- Own the on-call rotation
- Drive postmortems
- Work directly with engineering teams to meet their infra needs
- Flag issues clearly and rapidly during incidents
- Lead/write actionable postmortems
Requirements
- Strong fluency in Terraform, with real experience owning infrastructure-as-code at scale
- Hands-on experience running Elasticsearch for user-facing features
- Deep knowledge of GCP: Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging, and the managed services ecosystem
- Deep, hands-on experience scaling and sharding relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) in production
- Ability to work a P0 calmly, communicate clearly under pressure, and run a postmortem that prevents recurrence
- Experience working with GitHub Actions in a production environment
- Comfortable in an environment of rapid growth where scaling up is a priority
- Know the difference between a durable, sustainable fix and a patch that buys you a week
Skills
- Terraform
- Elasticsearch
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- VPC
- IAM
- Cloud Logging
- MySQL
- Postgres
- Incident response
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Communication
Experience Level
- Experience at startups
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-growing platform for gaming clips, where millions of gamers capture, share, and discover new games every year.
- We recently raised $320M at a $2.3B valuation led by Khosla Ventures with participation from General Catalyst, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos, to discover the next generation of real-world intelligence.
