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.
BEAST INDUSTRIES
Senior Data Engineer
Primary: Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula) | Secondary: NYC
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, so you get to design the data platform from scratch instead of untangling years of pipelines. You're here to build the privacy-safe data foundation that powers everything from product to AI.
The Product
You'll design, build, and run the data platform behind the MrBeast ecosystem: the foundation that lets us understand our audience and power great experiences, directly and with partners. That means:
- Build scalable batch and real-time pipelines feeding analytics, reporting, ML, and operational decisions.
- Hit 99.9%+ pipeline availability and cut data delivery latency on critical datasets.
- Build a privacy-safe data foundation that powers AI and product work across the company.
What You'll Do
- 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 turn business requirements into technical data solutions.
- Set and promote data engineering standards, governance, and best practices, and drive adoption.
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues and production incidents, and mentor engineers through design reviews.
Who You Are
- AI-Native: You're already using AI in your workflow, and you build the data foundations that modern AI and ML actually run on.
- Platform Builder: Typically 8+ years designing and operating production-grade data platforms, with strong data modeling, ETL/ELT, and distributed data processing chops.
- Reliability + Quality Focused: You've driven real improvements in pipeline reliability and data quality, and you can measure and sustain them.
- Independent Leader: You lead complex technical initiatives on your own and take ownership from design through operational support.
Experience building cloud-based data solutions and modern data architectures. Bonus points for supporting ML and AI data workflows, streaming and event-driven architectures, data governance and metadata management, and leading technical communities of practice.
Benefits
- Equity: Highly competitive equity package designed for a foundational hire.
- Hybrid Model: Expected ~2 days per week in-office (Bay Area or NYC).
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
- 8+ years designing and operating production-grade data platforms
- Design and implement scalable batch and streaming data pipelines
- Strong data modeling, ETL/ELT, and distributed data processing experience
- Experience building cloud-based data solutions and modern data architectures
- Proven track record improving pipeline reliability and data quality (SLA-focused)
- Build automated testing, monitoring, observability, and alerting for data systems
- Ability to lead complex technical initiatives independently and provide operational support
- Familiarity with privacy-safe data practices and designing privacy-aware data foundations
- Experience supporting ML and AI data workflows
- Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures
- Experience with data governance and metadata management
- Experience leading technical communities of practice or mentoring engineering teams
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
