Backend, Live, and Game Tech Lead

MrBeast • San Francisco, CA

3d

About The Position

Beast Industries is undertaking an AI-first engineering rebuild for a company that already has an audience of over 100 million people. This is a ground-up build with no legacy constraints, focused on creating live streaming and gaming experiences that set a new industry standard for the Beast community. The role involves defining the backend, live, and game tech stacks, designing for scale and performance under peak load, and making critical decisions regarding reliability and infrastructure costs. The product owner will manage the entire live and game tech stack, serving as the backend point of contact for the engineering team. Workloads are characterized by bursty and correlated events, leading to synchronized connection storms that stress all layers of the stack. This requires architecting scalable, high-performing, and cost-efficient systems for high-traffic global audiences, designing real-time systems (video processing, messaging, leaderboards) that maintain correctness and speed under spike-driven load, and establishing reliability standards through SLOs, capacity planning, incident response, and resilience patterns.

Requirements

• AI-Native: Proficient in using AI coding agents daily.
• 10+ years building and operating large-scale live streaming or gaming services.
• Deep expertise in real-time architecture: high concurrency, low latency, eventual consistency, horizontal scaling, and fault tolerance.
• Experience owning the full architecture of live streaming or gaming systems serving large, spike-driven user bases.
• Proven experience leading incident response for production systems.
• Experience setting technical direction adopted across multiple teams or titles.
• Deep expertise architecting full-stack tech stacks for large-scale live or gaming systems.
• Hands-on software development experience across backend and frontend (Go, C++, Rust, Java, or equivalent).

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with modern AI coding tools and AI-facilitated development processes.
• Prior hands-on experience with major cloud service providers.

Responsibilities

• Design the live and game service architecture and drive feature development using AI coding tools.
• Own the path to production, driving systems from development through deployment using AI-facilitated QA and SRE processes.
• Oversee the team's backend services, focusing on security, reliability, and infrastructure cost.
• Maintain relationships with third-party service providers.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, setting the technical bar and growing team capabilities.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed