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About the Role

This role involves an AI-first engineering rebuild for a company with an audience of 100M+ people. It is a zero-to-one build without legacy constraints, allowing for the design of backend systems correctly from inception. The focus is on building services that power consumer products at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend systems for the MrBeast membership ecosystem, including APIs, data models, and services.
• Ensure systems remain fast and reliable as the audience grows.
• Build scalable, secure backend services and APIs supporting consumer products with 100M+ potential users.
• Own system reliability, aiming for 99.9%+ availability, low latency, and minimal customer-impacting incidents.
• Utilize AI coding agents and modern development practices as default.
• Integrate AI into systems where beneficial.
• Lead architecture and technical design discussions for complex initiatives.
• Own service performance, reliability, availability, and operational excellence end-to-end.
• Partner with product, frontend, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
• Set and improve engineering standards and patterns.
• Address technical debt without hindering delivery.
• Review code and mentor engineers across the organization.
• Optimize database, service, and infrastructure performance.

Requirements

• AI-Native: Daily use of AI coding agents and modern development practices.
• Distributed-Systems Builder: Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Reliability Owner: Led production incidents to resolution and designed for scale and reliability with metrics.
• Pragmatic: Balances short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, taking end-to-end ownership.

Skills

• Strong grasp of APIs
• Strong grasp of databases
• Strong grasp of system design
• Strong grasp of cloud-native architectures
• Event-driven architectures and messaging systems (bonus)
• Operating services in public cloud (bonus)
• Security and data-protection best practices (bonus)
• Influencing technical direction across teams (bonus)

Location

• Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula)
• NYC

Work Type

• Hybrid Model: Expected ~2 days per week in-office

Experience Level

• Typically 7+ years in software engineering
• Heavy backend responsibility

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive Salary
• Highly competitive equity package

Benefits

• Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
• Dental
• Vision
• 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 where applicable
• Travel assistance (where applicable for relocation)
• Company-provided housing for the first 90 days (where applicable for relocation)

About the Company

• Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company.
• Founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast).
• Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation.
• Encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures beyond YouTube.
• Mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact.
• Operates across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives.
• Believes in the transformative power of digital media to entertain, educate, and effect positive change.
• Committed to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy.
• Drives to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy.
• Redefining entertainment and storytelling at a global scale.
• Every piece of content reaches millions and influences culture in real time.