About the Role:

Crunchyroll is looking for a Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and technical strategy of our digital media supply chain systems powering a global streaming platform. In this senior individual contributor role, you will lead end-to-end solution architecture across content ingestion, localization, packaging, metadata, and distribution. You will work closely with Business Transformation, Engineering, and Content Operations to define scalable, integrated workflows and drive solutions across the entire ecosystem.

You will play a key role in shaping the technology roadmap, evaluating third-party tools, guiding platform decisions, and ensuring long-term architectural integrity across systems. This is a hybrid position based in our Dallas, TX or Los Angeles office. You will report to the VP, Enterprise Technology.

What You'll Do:

Pluses:

• Strong understanding of the Video landscape and industry standards in software development, video management, security, and infrastructure

• Experience with tools like AWS Media Services, Google Cloud Platform

• You have experience in video transcoding, packaging, and encoding processes.

What We're Looking For:

• 10+ years of experience designing media workflow solutions across content ingestion, processing, localization, and delivery.

• Proven experience designing media workflows for OTT or DTC streaming platforms

• Deep understanding of MAM, metadata standards, video formats, and localization pipelines

• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture (AWS/GCP), APIs, and systems integration

• Ability to lead solution engineering efforts across multiple teams without direct reporting lines

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

• Hardworking problem-solver who thrives in finding solutions to complex technical challenges

• Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership abilities, with the ability to build successful relationships across all levels of the organization

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