Media Systems Engineer

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 You Tube. 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.

Location: Raleigh, NC (must reside in the Raleigh area) ·
Type: Full-Time ·
Travel: Frequent travel to Greenville, NC required

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 Dream Works, NBCUniversal, or Netflix — and knows what it takes to keep production moving when the stakes are high and the timelines are short.

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
• Troubleshoot and optimize network performance for video editing, media transport, and file‑acceleration workflows
• Partner with the team on network design for new builds and studio expansion
• Manage cloud storage integration and hybrid on‑prem/cloud tiering (AWS or equivalent)
• Support media workflows and asset movement between editorial, archive, and delivery systems
• Script and automate repetitive infrastructure and media‑movement tasks (Python, Bash, or Power Shell)
• Write and maintain documentation, SOPs, and runbooks so knowledge never lives in just one head

• 5+ years of systems engineering / systems administration experience in media & entertainment — studio, network, broadcast, or post‑production environments (e.g., Dream Works, NBCUniversal, Netflix, or comparable)
• Deep hands‑on experience with archival workflows and LTO tape libraries (Quantum, Spectra Logic, or similar) and archive software (Archiware, SGL, or equivalent)
• Strong storage chops: SAN/NAS administration at scale (Avid NEXIS, SNS EVO, Power Scale/Isilon, Qumulo, or similar)
• Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLANs, routing/switching, DNS/DHCP, firewalls, and high‑throughput (10/25/100
  
  GbE) environments
• Server administration across Linux and Windows, plus…