About the Role
Lead an AI-first engineering rebuild, establishing quality and reliability standards from inception for a company with 100M+ audience. Own the strategy for shipping correct and resilient software at scale, covering quality engineering and site reliability across consumer platforms and the creator ecosystem. This is a hands-on expert role focused on setting standards and building foundational systems.
Responsibilities
- Own the test strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and chaos/resilience testing.
- Define and own release-readiness criteria for high-risk launches.
- Establish SLO and error-budget frameworks for critical services and drive their adoption across teams.
- Build foundational tooling including CI/CD test gates, regression suites, load-testing harnesses, and observability instrumentation.
- Lead incident response for high-severity events, conduct blameless postmortems, and ensure follow-through.
- Identify systemic sources of fragility and drive root-cause fixes.
- Act as the technical authority on go/no-go calls, communicating risk to non-technical stakeholders.
- Own build-vs-buy decisions for monitoring, tracing, alerting, and test-automation platforms.
- Mentor engineers on reliability principles.
Requirements
- Daily use of AI with a strong viewpoint on AI-assisted testing and anomaly detection.
- Extensive hands-on experience in software quality engineering and site reliability.
- Experience with test-automation architecture and reliability systems for high-traffic distributed production.
- Defined SLO/error-budget frameworks.
- Led incident response for severe production events.
- Treats every escaped defect as a systemic problem.
- Strong engineering skills to build tooling and review systems-level code.
- Ability to influence teams through working systems and evidence.
Skills
- Observability stacks (metrics, logging, distributed tracing)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud infrastructure
- Consumer-scale fintech environments (bonus)
- High-volume media/streaming environments (bonus)
- Chaos engineering (bonus)
- Contributions to open-source reliability/testing tooling (bonus)
Location
- Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula)
- NYC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff
- Expert
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
- Highly competitive equity package
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity package
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance (including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days)
About the Company
- Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast).
- The company is renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation and operates across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives.
- Its mission is to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact.
- Beast Industries is committed to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy, aiming to explore new frontiers and build an inspiring legacy.
