Senior Infra Engineer - Cloud, Storage & Scale

General Intuition & Medal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

General Intuition is seeking a generalist infra engineer in New York to own end-to-end cloud and storage infrastructure. You will design the architecture, manage petabyte-scale data flows, and align with research and product teams across General Intuition and Medal.

You will lead the infra function, hire and mentor engineers, and continue writing code while shaping how we deploy, review, and run systems in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on exposure to planet-scale distributed systems with storage/query systems.
• Deep cloud and storage experience with production deployments on major clouds.
• Proven track record building infra from scratch, ideally as a founder or first infra engineer.
• Experience leading infra while staying hands-on, including hiring and coding today.
• Range spanning low-level infra to application code without handoffs.
• High agency and sound judgment navigating ambiguity between research and consumer product needs.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud architecture and storage systems end to end, plan for 10x data growth.
• Define how we design, review, deploy and run systems while staying hands-on.
• Build the infrastructure function in New York, set direction and hire/grow the team.
• Collaborate with research and product engineers across General Intuition and Medal.
• Lead by example, raise the bar for engineering teams, and contribute code.

Skills

Cloud & storage

Terraform

IAM

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Infra leadership

Hands-on coding

Full-stack infra

Tools

Dagster

PyTorch

JAX

Rust

Job description

General Intuition is seeking a generalist infra engineer in New York to own end-to-end cloud and storage infrastructure. You will design the architecture, manage petabyte-scale data flows, and align with research and product teams across General Intuition and Medal.

You will lead the infra function, hire and mentor engineers, and continue writing code while shaping how we deploy, review, and run systems in a fast-moving environment.