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Site Reliability / Infrastructure Engineer

Location
New York City, NY
Work type
Full Time
Posted
2026-08-05

Job description

The Role
Medal’s infrastructure handles billions of clips, video ingestion pipelines, and social features at a massive scale most engineers never get to touch. The work centers on reliability, incident response, scaling, and making sure 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. The right person probably came through startups and scale-ups, has been in the room when things broke at 2am, has scaled databases under pressure, and knows the difference between a durable fix and a patch that buys you a week.

What We’re Looking For
Infrastructure-as-code: Strong fluency in Terraform, with real experience owning infrastructure-as-code at scale
Elasticsearch depth: Hands-on experience running ES for user-facing features, not just as a log sink
GCP depth: You know it maybe a little too well: Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging, and the managed services ecosystem
Database scaling: Deep, hands-on experience scaling and sharding relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) in production
Incident response instincts: You can work a P0 calmly, communicate clearly under pressure, and run a postmortem that prevents recurrence
CI/CD: You’ve worked with GitHub Actions in a production environment
Communication (crucial!): You flag issues clearly and rapidly during incidents and lead/write actionable postmortems
Experience at startups: You are comfortable in an environment of rapid growth where scaling up is a priority
Great judgment: You know the difference between a durable, sustainable fix and a patch that buys you a week

Our Stack
Electron, React, Redux, Styled Components & other modern web-based technologies

C# and C++ for native Windows recording & more

Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android

Java, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes for backend

Terraform, Salt, GitHub Actions, CircleCI for IaC and CI/CD

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