General Intuition
Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Site Reliability & Infrastructure
$180K–$275K
New York City · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
About the job
Own reliability and infrastructure for Medal’s large-scale clip ingestion and social platform, including incident response, scaling, and supporting engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Own the on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and lead actionable postmortems.
- Scale and operate infrastructure, databases, and search systems.
- Work with engineering teams to meet infrastructure needs.
What they ask for
- Strong Terraform experience owning infrastructure-as-code at scale.
- Hands-on experience running Elasticsearch for user-facing features.
- Deep production experience scaling and sharding relational databases, including MySQL or Postgres.
- Production experience with GCP, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions; strong incident response and communication skills.
Pay
$180K – $275K USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, Elasticsearch, GCP, Kubernetes, MySQL, Postgres, GitHub Actions, Redis
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