Data Security Engineer, Medal X General Intuition
$180-300k
+ Equity
Social video platform for gaming
Open for applications
Social video platform for gaming
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-300k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- You harden GCP (AWS equivalents fine), Kubernetes, and containers from the inside out - workload isolation, network segmentation, IAM discipline, and secure-by-default guardrails baked into Terraform, CI/CD, and deployments
- You protect the data pipelines - encrypting and isolating the video/metadata ETL, with full logging and observability (Cloud Logging, SIEM, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb) into how AI training data moves and is used
- You own identity, access, and secrets - privileged-access visibility, key rotation, least-privilege baselines, workload identity, and PKI (cloud-native KMS / Secret Manager)
- You secure the software supply chain - scanned builds and dependencies, artifact provenance, hardened GitHub Actions runners
- You run the op-sec program - threat modeling, red-team and tabletop drills, incident response, and external pen-tests
- You keep us compliant across creator data and AI training data
What the job involves
- This role secures the infrastructure bridging GI's AI research and Medal's creator platform
- You will harden our cloud environments, protect our data pipelines, and ensure our deployment systems are safe from supply-chain attacks and other threats
- You'll design secure-by-default foundations without slowing down research or product teams, blending off-the-shelf security tooling with custom guardrails where necessary
- Your work directly reduces operational risk across both General Intuition and Medal
- Our Stack Cloud: GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), Cloudflare + Akamai edge
- IaC & CI/CD: Terraform, GitHub Actions
- Identity & secrets: Cloud IAM, workload identity, KMS / Secret Manager
- Observability: Cloud Logging, SIEM, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb
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 provides a social platform for gaming video clips. It allows users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends from one place. While the company competes with platform giants like Twitch, it stands out by being specifically designed for gaming content. It also collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying, and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
In 2025, Medal spun out "General Intuition", and has since been hiring to both its own and the new company's team. General Intuition's mission is to build a new class of models that can perceive, predict and act in both virtual and physical environments. It is leveraging Medal's vast datasets to this end, reducing the limitations on machine intelligence by training AI on interaction and exploration rather than just written words.
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: $85.9m
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Additional info
- General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time, spun out of Medal in 2025. Find out more at www.generalintuition.com
Leadership
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product)Former COO/CCO/Finance for the company. Worked in CS and Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Ken Colton
(CEO)Joined the company as Lead Software Engineer in 2021, becoming CTO then President then CEO. Previously Lead Software Engineer at Gif Your Game, Technical Lead at Grubhub and CTO at Material World. Co-founded and was Front-End Lead at Twubs.
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