CTO / VP Engineering - BeReal

BeReal; United States; Remote; USD 228,000 - 341,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Swile Lunch voucher

Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)

Premium healthcare coverage SideCare

Wellness activities in Paris office

Job summary

Voodoo is seeking a senior engineering leader to oversee BeReal's engineering org. You will manage about 80 engineers across three codebases (iOS, Android, Backend) and report to the CEO. Your mandate covers system stability, rapid squad velocity, cost control, and attracting top talent.

You will drive technical strategy with the CEO and product leadership, hire exceptional engineers, and ensure high-quality delivery across multiple platforms and stacks.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in engineering, 6+ years leading leaders in large teams
• Scaled a high-traffic consumer product or comparable high-throughput infrastructure
• Architect-level depth with distributed-systems trade-offs; no coding test
• Built regression-prevention systems for parallel shipping
• Led distributed teams with clear writing, metrics, and fast async decisions
• Nice to have: consumer social, camera or media products, native mobile orgs

Responsibilities

• Own the stability of a system where millions of users post within the same two minutes, every day
• Run 12 squads across three codebases: release discipline, feature flags, platform, developer experience
• Own infrastructure cost as a P&L line: GCP, Cloud Spanner, media delivery at scale
• Complete our Node.js to Go migration without slowing delivery
• Hire exceptional engineers, develop them, and hold the bar
• Set technical strategy with the CEO and product leadership

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed teams

Staff engineering

Go/Node.js migration

Cloud infrastructure (GCP)

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Datadog

Job description

About Voodoo

Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.

Team

BeReal stands for authenticity in social media: one notification a day, unfiltered photos and videos, real friends. 40M+ people use BeReal every month, and they all post at the same moment. Since joining Voodoo, BeReal has returned to growth with a healthy business model and $50M in revenue this year. The opportunity is clear: people want an alternative to Instagram and TikTok. Our ambition is to make BeReal the leader in authentic social, used by hundreds of millions.

Role

You will lead BeReal's engineering organization: 12 squads, around 80 people across tech and product, three codebases (iOS, Android, Backend). You will report directly to BeReal's CEO. Your mandate: app stability at spike scale, faster squads without regressions, infrastructure cost under control, and a higher talent bar.

What you'll do:

• Own the stability of a system where millions of users post within the same two minutes, every day

• Run 12 squads across three codebases: release discipline, feature flags, platform, developer experience

• Own infrastructure cost as a P&L line: GCP, Cloud Spanner, media delivery at scale

• Complete our Node.js to Go migration without slowing delivery

• Hire exceptional engineers, develop them, and hold the bar

• Set technical strategy with the CEO and product leadership

Our stack

GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Datadog, Fastly, Go (some legacy Node.js), Cloud Spanner, Redis, PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub, Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin, BigQuery, Airflow, DBT, Amplitude

Profile

• 12+ years in engineering, 6+ leading leaders, in organizations of 80-200+ engineers

• You scaled a high-traffic consumer product or comparable high-throughput infrastructure

• Architect-level depth: you hold your own with staff engineers on distributed-systems trade-offs. No coding test.

• You have built regression-prevention systems for many teams shipping in parallel

• You lead distributed teams through clear writing, metrics, and fast async decisions

• A plus: consumer social, camera or media products, native mobile organizations

Benefits

• Competitive salary upon experience

• Swile Lunch voucher

• Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)

• Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family 100% borne by Voodoo

• Wellness activities in our Paris office