Data Engineer, Medal.tv
Clips/ML Data
$170-275k
Plus equity
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
Posted today
Social platform for short-form gaming video clips
21-100 employees
Posted today
$170-275k
Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about building petabyte-scale video pipelines, love working on low-latency systems, and are excited to help define the future of real-time gaming insights, we want to hear from you
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, backend systems, or related roles. Experience with video data or ML infrastructure is a plus
- Deep knowledge of ETL/ELT pipelines, distributed systems, and streaming data architectures (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.)
- Strong proficiency with Python, Scala, Go, or similar languages used in data-intensive environments
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Parquet, Arrow)
- Track record of designing systems with extreme scale and performance requirements
- Deep understanding of data QA methodologies, anomaly detection, and automated testing in production systems
- Passion for mentorship and team development; able to upskill engineers and advocate for engineering excellence
- A bias toward ownership, urgency, and a desire to build systems that just work, even at scale
What the job involves
- At Medal, we’re redefining how people capture and share gameplay experiences. Every day, our platform ingests tens of thousands of hours of gameplay video—raw, unfiltered, and packed with insights
- We're looking for a seasoned Data Engineer to take full ownership of our Clips/ML data infrastructure, building the next generation of scalable, real-time pipelines that power everything from user-facing discovery to machine learning research
- You'll lead the architecture, operations, and performance of data systems that sit at the heart of our product, influencing everything from content indexing to model training
- Architect and operate petabyte-scale ingestion pipelines that ingest ~50 k hours of gameplay video every day
- Design automated QA guard-rails (schema validation, anomaly detection, deduplication)
- Build high-performance ETL and feature-extraction jobs to process and index hundreds of millions of clips into columnar/video-native formats
- Own the end-to-end data ingestion stack (desktop & mobile recorders, upload services, CDN)
- Establish real-time monitoring, lineage, and “five-nines” SLAs, driving continuous improvement across storage, compute, and network layers
- Partner with research and product to curate high-signal data slices, data-health metrics, and accelerate model experimentation
- Champion security, privacy, and governance: implement robust RBAC, audit trails, and compliant retention policies for sensitive gameplay footage and user inputs
- Mentor and uplevel engineers (including internal Medal platform talent), fostering a culture of craftsmanship, documentation, and ruthless focus on data excellence
Our take
Video games have become highly social experiences due to multiplayer gaming, eSports, and social media, spawning a huge market for audiences who enjoy watching gaming-related video content. Gamers commonly stream games and edit the footage to produce memes and engage with friends, but this requires many software tools and a separate platform on which to share experiences.
Medal.tv provides a social platform for gaming video clips, allowing users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends within the same software. The platform collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
Whilst the company will face great competition from platform giants such as Youtube, TikTok, and Twitch, Medal.tv shows the potential to stand out by being specifically designed for gaming content. Furthermore, the platform’s accessible video capturing and editing interface keeps the end-to-end social gaming experience within the same platform, making it more convenient and immersive for gamers than on other platforms.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$13m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $86m
Company HQ
Naarden, Netherlands
Leadership
Pim de Witte
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder and CEO of Highlight. Experience as Founder, CEO & CTO of Soulsplit from 2009 to 2014. Software Engineer and Product Manager for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from 2014 to 2017.
Joshua Lipson
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Co-founder and Chief Architect at Highlight. Full Stack Developer and CTO of Soulsplit from 2013 to 2015.
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product Design)Worked in CS & Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
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