Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
Backend and Platform Tech Lead
The Opportunity
We're doing an AI-first engineering rebuild for a company that already has an audience of 100M+ people. This is a zero-to-one build with no legacy constraints. You're not joining to babysit existing infrastructure. You're here to create live streaming and gaming experiences that set a new bar for the industry, built from the ground up for the Beast community. You'll define the backend, live, and game tech stacks, design for scale and performance at peak load, and own the reliability and infrastructure cost decisions that matter most.
The Product
We’re building a new consumer app that enables our fans to engage in challenges, philanthropy and interactive experiences at scale. You’ll own the technology stack behind our most complex interactive experiences, working across both the frontend and backend. You’ll also serve as the primary backend technical lead across the engineering team.
Our workloads are highly dynamic, with major fan moments capable of driving sudden, synchronized traffic spikes across every layer of the stack. That means you will:
- Architect critical services end to end, building scalable, high-performing and cost-efficient systems for large audiences in the United States and around the world.
- Design real-time and event-driven systems that remain accurate, responsive and resilient under extreme, spike-driven demand.
- Establish the standard for reliability and engineering quality, including SLOs, capacity planning, incident response and resilience patterns for systems operating at massive consumer scale.
What You'll Do
- Design the live and game service architecture and drive feature development using AI coding tools, shipping at a velocity that redefines what a small engineering team can deliver.
- Own the path to production: drive systems from development through deployment, leveraging AI-facilitated QA and SRE processes and tooling to maintain the highest engineering quality at scale.
- Oversee the team's backend services across security, reliability, and infrastructure cost, and maintain relationships with third-party service providers.
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting the technical bar and growing the team's capabilities alongside the product.
Who You Are
- AI-Native: You're already burning through tokens and using AI coding agents daily to move faster.
- Distributed-Systems Master: 10+ years building and operating large-scale live streaming or gaming services, with real depth in real-time architecture: high concurrency, low latency, eventual consistency, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
- Battle-Tested at Scale: You've owned the full architecture of live streaming or gaming systems serving large, spike-driven user bases, and you've led the response when one of them broke in production.
- Direction-Setter: You've set technical direction adopted across multiple teams or titles, not just inside one team.
Deep expertise architecting full-stack tech stacks for large-scale live or gaming systems, with hands-on software development experience across backend and frontend (Go, C++, Rust, Java, or equivalent). Bonus points for familiarity with modern AI coding tools and AI-facilitated development processes, and prior hands-on experience with major cloud service providers.
We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
Skills Required
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale live streaming or gaming services with deep real-time architecture expertise
- Hands-on software development experience across backend and frontend using Go, C++, Rust, Java, or equivalent
- Proven ownership of full architecture and incident response for spike-driven production systems
- Experience designing real-time systems (video processing, real-time messaging, leaderboards, stateful game servers) at scale
- Experience setting SLOs, capacity planning, resilience patterns, and reliability engineering practices
- Demonstrated leadership setting technical direction across multiple teams and mentoring engineers
- Familiarity with major cloud service providers
- Familiarity with AI coding tools and AI-facilitated development processes
- Experience managing infrastructure cost trade-offs and third-party service provider relationships
What We Do
The YouTube Streamy Awards' 2020 Creator of the Year Accomplishments - Raised $20,000,000 To Plant 20,000,000 Trees - Given millions to charity - Donated over 100 cars lol - Gave away a private island - Given away over 100 ps4s lol - Gave away 1 million dollars in one video - Counted to 100k - Read the Dictionary - Watched Dance Till You're Dead For 10 Hours - Read Bee Movie Script - Read Longest English Word - Watched Paint Dry - Ubering Across America - Watched It's Every Day Bro For 10 Hours - Ran a marathon in the world's largest shoes - Adopted every dog in a shelter You get the point haha
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