Staff Engineer / Architect, Data & Identity

Mrbeastyoutube; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

HSA

401k

Flexible vacation

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Beast Industries is building a groundbreaking consumer membership ecosystem and you will architect the central data and identity platform that every product, partner integration, and AI system relies on at scale.

This anchor role requires setting standards, shipping production systems end-to-end, and driving data quality, privacy, and integration across squads to support 100M+ users.

Qualifications

• Designed and shipped identity, CDP, or core data platforms in consumer products.
• Built privacy and consent-aware architectures for GDPR/CCPA/ COPPA or global regimes.
• Integrated partner data from telco, payments, marketplace, and ad-tech.

Responsibilities

• Architect the central data and identity platform end-to-end: identity, profiles, events, consent, CRM, and the data model.
• Design and build the compliance foundation—consent management, data-rights workflows, retention, auditability.
• Own the partner data integration layer: ingestion, normalization, entitlement, processing for partner data flows.
• Partner across squads to ensure a shared, clean data spine across membership app, marketplace, and AI.
• Set the technical bar for data quality, latency, lineage, and security at consumer scale.
• Operate as a zero-to-one architect, shipping production systems end-to-end.

Skills

Identity platform

Data architecture

Privacy & compliance

Partner data integration

AI-native architecture

Shipping & delivery

Tools

Git

Job description

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.

Staff Engineer / Architect, Data & Identity

Primary: Bay Area (San Francisco/Peninsula) | Secondary: NYC | Hybrid

Location: Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula) Reports to: Director of Engineering Team: Data & Identity

The Opportunity

We are building a first-of-its-kind consumer membership ecosystem from the ground up, and the data and identity layer is the spine that holds it all together. As our Staff Engineer / Architect for Data & Identity, you will architect the central platform that every product, partner integration, and AI system at Beast Industries runs on top of. There is no legacy CRM, no tangled data warehouse, no inherited compliance debt — just a zero-to-one build where you get to design it right the first time, at 100M+ user scale.

This is an anchor technical role. You'll set architecture, write code, and define the standards that the rest of the engineering org builds against.

The Product

You will architect the core platform underneath a membership and advertising ecosystem anchored around the MrBeast audience — one that spans all of our consumer and partner touchpoints. Your surface area includes:

• Customer Data Management: A unified identity and customer data platform — profiles, auth, consent, CRM, and the event backbone — serving every product squad and downstream AI system.
• Compliance Management: Privacy, consent, and data-rights infrastructure built from day one across GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, and the regimes that come with a global audience.
• Partnership Data Integration: Ingestion and processing for partner data flows — wired into a clean, governed data model.

What You'll Do

• Architect the central data and identity platform end-to-end: identity, profiles, events, consent, CRM, and the data model that every product at Beast runs on.
• Design and build the compliance foundation — consent management, data-rights workflows, retention, and auditability — so privacy and compliance ship as infrastructure, not afterthoughts.
• Own the partner data integration layer: ingestion, normalization, entitlement, and processing for telco perks, partner rewards, and marketplace counterparties.
• Partner across squads — membership app, marketplace, AI — to make sure every team is building on a shared, clean data spine rather than forking their own.
• Set the technical bar for data quality, latency, lineage, and security at consumer scale. Write the playbook the rest of the org builds against.
• Operate as a true zero-to-one architect — burning through tokens, using coding agents, and shipping production systems end-to-end rather than handing off diagrams.

Who You Are

• Platform Architect at Scale: You've architected and shipped identity, CDP, or core data platforms inside consumer products used by millions. You've owned the hard parts — schema evolution, event throughput, identity resolution — in production.
• Compliance-Fluent: You've built for GDPR, CCPA, and the global patchwork in real products, and you treat privacy and consent as architecture, not paperwork.
• AI-Native: You aren't just curious about AI; you are burning through tokens, using coding agents daily, and designing data systems with AI consumption as a first-class use case.
• Integration-Minded: You've wired up messy partner data flows — telco, payments, marketplace, ad-tech — and made them feel clean to the teams consuming them.
• Scrappy & Scaled: You have the startup experience to build from zero with a nimble team, plus the big-tech experience to know what breaks when a product hits massive scale.
• Action-Oriented: You thrive in ambiguity and prefer architecting-by-shipping over long design cycles. You write code, not just docs.

The target total compensation ranges from $170,000 to 223,000, an employee equity plan grant, bonus, plus comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

The Perks, Why Work On the MrBeast Team

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