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.
Quality & Reliability Tech Lead
Primary: Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula) | Secondary: NYC
About Us
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.
Quality & Reliability 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 here to reinvent what QA looks like in the AI era, giving a high-complexity engineering org the foundation to move faster than ever without sacrificing quality. Alongside that, you'll build the SRE processes and tooling that ensure the highest engineering standards as we scale to massive traffic.
The Product
You'll own how Beast Industries ships software that's both correct and resilient at scale, spanning quality engineering and site reliability across consumer-facing platforms. You set the standards and build the systems other teams rely on. That means:
- Define and execute AI-driven QA plans and verification processes, combining automated validation with human oversight to catch what matters before it ships.
- Build and own the automated test infrastructure: CI/CD test gates, regression suites, load-testing harnesses, and end-to-end coverage across unit, integration, performance, and chaos/resilience testing.
- Establish AI-facilitated SRE processes that enforce the highest production quality at scale, serving as the gatekeeper for user experience across all live services.
What You'll Do
- Define and own the org's test strategy and the release-readiness criteria for high-risk launches.
- Establish SLO and error-budget frameworks for critical services, and be the technical authority on go/no-go calls across the team.
- Lead incident response for high-severity events, run blameless postmortems, and drive root-cause fixes on systemic fragility before it becomes a pattern.
- Grow and mentor a team of engineers on quality and reliability thinking, embedding best practices across the org so that high engineering standards become part of how every team ships, not just a gatekeeping function.
Who You Are
- AI-Native: You're already using AI daily, and you have a real point of view on where AI-assisted testing and anomaly detection help versus where they just add noise.
- Quality + Reliability Hybrid: 8+ year hands-on experience across both software quality engineering and site reliability, with test-automation architecture and reliability systems built for high-traffic distributed production.
- Production Owner: You've defined SLO/error-budget frameworks and led incident response for severe production events, and you treat every escaped defect as a systemic problem, not an individual fault.
- Builder Who Influences: You're a strong enough engineer to build the tooling and review systems-level code, and you move teams through working systems and evidence rather than mandates.
Deep fluency with observability stacks (metrics, logging, distributed tracing), CI/CD pipelines, automated test methodologies and tooling, and cloud infrastructure. Bonus points for experience in high-volume media or streaming environments, AI-assisted QA tools and processes, and contributions to open-source reliability or testing tooling.
Benefits
- Equity: Highly competitive equity package designed for a foundational hire.
- Hybrid Model: Expected ~3 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
- Define and own test strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and chaos/resilience testing
- Establish SLOs, error budgets, and release-readiness criteria for critical services
- Design and build CI/CD test gates, regression suites, load-testing harnesses, and observability instrumentation
- Lead incident response for high-severity events, run blameless postmortems, and drive follow-through fixes
- Deep fluency with observability stacks (metrics, logging, distributed tracing), monitoring, tracing, and alerting
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and reliability systems for high-traffic distributed production
- Experience mentoring engineers on reliability thinking and technical authority on go/no-go decisions
- Practical experience or point of view on AI-assisted testing and anomaly detection
- Experience in consumer-scale fintech or high-volume media/streaming environments
- Contributions to open-source reliability/testing tooling or chaos engineering experience
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
