About the Role
This role involves an AI-first engineering rebuild for a company with an audience of over 100 million people. It is a zero-to-one build, offering the opportunity to design a data platform from scratch without legacy constraints. The primary objective is to establish a privacy-safe data foundation that supports product development and AI initiatives across the company. This includes designing, building, and operating the data platform for the MrBeast ecosystem, creating scalable batch and real-time pipelines for analytics, reporting, ML, and operational decisions, ensuring high pipeline availability, and reducing data delivery latency on critical datasets.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Develop and maintain enterprise data models, schemas, and storage architectures.
- Optimize data processing for performance, reliability, and cost.
- Build automated testing, monitoring, observability, and alerting for data systems.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical data solutions.
- Set, promote, and drive adoption of data engineering standards, governance, and best practices.
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues and production incidents.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews.
Requirements
- Use AI in workflow and build data foundations for modern AI and ML.
- Typically 8+ years designing and operating production-grade data platforms.
- Proven ability to improve, measure, and sustain pipeline reliability and data quality.
- Lead complex technical initiatives independently, taking ownership from design through operational support.
- Experience building cloud-based data solutions and modern data architectures.
Skills
- Data modeling
- ETL/ELT
- Distributed data processing
- Cloud-based data solutions
- Modern data architectures
- Supporting ML and AI data workflows
- Streaming and event-driven architectures
- Data governance
- Metadata management
- Leading technical communities of practice
Location
- Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula)
- NYC
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8+ years designing and operating production-grade data platforms
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Highly competitive equity package
- Hybrid work model (~2 days per week in-office)
- Competitive Salary
- 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 where applicable)
About the Company
- Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast).
- Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, with ventures beyond YouTube.
- Mission: 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.
- Redefining entertainment and storytelling at a global scale.
- Content reaches millions and influences culture in real time.
