Who We Are
We’re a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.
Crunchyroll COVID-19 Hiring Status
Crunchyroll employees are currently working from home, and we are still conducting remote interviews and hiring during this time. This role is expected to start remotely, and we’ll work closely with you as we understand every person has unique circumstances.
Location: San Francisco
Our headquarters is located in downtown San Francisco, where our group of cross-functional experts assemble to create experiences for our passionate communities.
About the Team
The Content Management Services team at Crunchyroll is a group of engineers that focus on delivering Title, Availability, and Video metadata that powers our APIs Services and Applications. Video is at the core of our streaming service and is supported by dedicated playback and infrastructure teams. We work on distributed systems that scale well for the popularity of our service. We take pride in being domain specialists in Metadata management and the services that support the business. We all are leaders and have the ability to drive the engineering team, yet are low ego to support each other to build outstanding user experiences across more than 10 platforms for brands! Our geographically distributed CMS team supports both external and internal business partners end-to-end, as content is ingested, organized, and distributed within our applications and to other 3rd party video distribution platforms.
About You:
The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in architecting distributed systems, and experience building highly scalable and robust platforms. Show dedication to implementing good engineering practices, and be committed to training your teams. Own SDLC within the team and ensure product goals and timelines are met without compromising on quality. Should be open to traveling to our remote offices occasionally to collaborate with other team members of your service domain. You also enjoy advocating for overall improvements in the practices of the engineering teams you work with. Be open to supporting your team as a servant leader.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a software engineer working on back-end, cloud-based systems
- Experience in building and handling front-end applications
- 1+ years leading a team in software industry
- Experience implementing auto-scaling policies and tuning for cost vs performance
- Familiarity with code design principles, patterns, and critical thinking
- Experience with automated testing principles and best-practices
- Expertise with Golang
- Experience with multiple AWS technologies
- Built SQL and NoSQL data stores and their applications
- Experience with Docker and containerizing microservices
- Experience measuring and modeling cost and performance metrics of cloud services
- Experience with bug tracking software like JIRA
Pluses
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams
- Familiarity with internet video or content management systems
- Active participation in one or more open-source projects
- Familiarity with React/Redux
- Experience with implementing and operating systems using event-driven architecture
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
A day in the life of our CMS team:
- Work collaboratively with the product owner and program manager to forecast deliveries over multiple sprints
- Communicate to other technical and business teams
- Translating loose product requirements into technical specifications
- Ensure the team is on track with sprint goals and mitigate risks to ensure goals are reached
- Nurture team members on either the latest microservice development practices or cloud technologies
- Having 1:1s to check in with team members to learn of any internal team struggles and/or to build career path opportunities!
- Coordinate incident response and communication for outages or degradations in your services
Benefits: San Francisco Office:
- Competitive salary
- “Use What You Need” time away from work policy
- Medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- On-site gym, showers, yoga, and wellness classes
- Catered lunch and dinner 4 days per week
- Skilled, passionate, and fun co-workers
- Pet friendly environment - pet insurance and dog friendly office
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About Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content and experiences they love. In addition to free ad-supported and subscription premium content, Crunchyroll serves the anime community across events, theatrical, games, consumer products, collectibles and manga publishing.
Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast.
The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan’s Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
Our Company Values
You’ll see these in action if we’re lucky enough to have you:
- Courage - When we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
- Curiosity - We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
- Service - We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
- Kaizen - We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.