Media Systems Engineer

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. Media Systems Engineer Location: Raleigh, NC (must reside in the Raleigh area) · Type: Full-Time · Travel: Frequent travel to Greenville, NC required About the Role MrBeast produces more content — and generates more footage — than almost any studio on the planet. Behind every video is a serious infrastructure operation: petabyte-scale storage, high-bandwidth editorial networks, deep archives, and a data center that never gets to take a day off. We’re looking for a Media Systems Engineer based in Raleigh, NC to work directly with our Systems Engineering lead and support the broader team. You’ll remotely operate and maintain our data center, own storage and archival infrastructure end to end, and travel frequently to our Greenville, NC studio for hands-on work. This is a role for someone who has lived inside real media infrastructure — the kind found at studios and networks like DreamWorks, NBCUniversal, or Netflix — and knows what it takes to keep production moving when the stakes are high and the timelines are short. What You’ll Do Storage & Archival Operate and maintain multi-tier storage infrastructure (primary, nearline, and archive) for raw camera footage and finished assets Manage LTO tape library operations end to end: archival writes, verification/checksums, restores, offsite rotation, and media lifecycle Administer SAN/NAS and shared editorial storage platforms, including capacity planning, performance tuning, and monitoring Support and improve backup and disaster recovery strategy across on-prem and cloud tiers Data Center & Servers Provide remote day-to-day operation and support of our data center: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and vendor coordination Build and administer Linux and Windows servers, virtualization platforms, and core services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP) Perform hands-on data center work during Greenville visits: racking, cabling, hardware lifecycle, and facility upgrades Networking Support high-bandwidth editorial and production networks: VLANs, subnets, routing/switching, and firewall policies …