Medal.tv
Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability & Infrastructure)
Owns reliability for Medal.tv's large-scale video-clip and social infrastructure: runs the on-call rotation, leads incident response and postmortems, and scales the platform. Core stack is Terraform IaC, GCP (Kubernetes, IAM), Elasticsearch for user-facing features, sharded MySQL/Postgres, and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- Compensation
- $180K–$275K / yr
- Location
- New York, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong fluency in Terraform with real experience owning infrastructure-as-code at scale
- Hands-on experience running Elasticsearch for user-facing features, not just as a log sink
- GCP depth: Kubernetes, VPC, IAM, Cloud Logging, and managed services ecosystem
- Deep, hands-on experience scaling and sharding relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) in production
- Incident response instincts: calmly work a P0, communicate under pressure, run postmortems that prevent recurrence
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions in a production environment
- Clear, rapid communication during incidents; lead and write actionable postmortems
- Experience at startups/scale-ups comfortable with rapid growth and scaling priorities
- Great judgment distinguishing durable fixes from short-term patches
- Senior/Staff-level software engineering experience
Full description
- 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
- Infrastructure-as-code: Strong fluency in Terraform, with real experience owning infrastructure-as-code at scale
- Elastic search depth: Hands-on experience running ES for user-facing features, not just as a log sink
- GCP depth: 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
- The right person probably came through startups and scale-ups and has been in the room when things broke at 2am, has scaled databases under pressure