Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer Location: Bay Area (San Francisco Peninsula) or NYC (secondary) 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 & QualityFocused: 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). Competitive salary Generous medical (BlueCrossBlueShield), dental, vision, and company‑paid life insurance Company contributions to employee 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr MrBeast