Staff Software Engineer

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About Crunchyroll

WE HELP EVERYONE BELONG. IT’S OUR PURPOSE.

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

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.

About The Team

We are a team of enterprise technology professionals who own the Digital content Supply Chain (DSC), workflow automation, cloud operations to power our modern media supply chain  platform. 

About You:

  • Education ranging from a Bachelor’s of Science degree in computer science or related engineering degree. 
  • 12+ years of high level API, abstraction layers, and application software development experience.
  • 5+ years experience building scalable, serverless solutions in GCP or AWS
  • 4+ years of experience in Python, MongoDB
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems and streaming data services.
  • Experience building, developing, and maintaining cloud native infrastructure, serverless architecture, micro-operations, and workflow automation.
  • You are a hardworking problem-solver who thrives in finding solutions to difficult technical challenges.
  • Experience with modern high-level languages and databases including Javascript, MongoDB, and Python.
  • Experience in Github, Gitlab, CI/CD, Jira, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and collaborative documentation.
  • Expertise with GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, or containerization, is a great plus.
  • Ability to write and assess clean, functional, high quality and testable code for each of our projects.
  • Positive and proactive, solution-focused contributor and team motivation.

Pluses:

  • Familiarity with Digital Supply Chain, OTT, or MAM (Media Assets Management) 
  • Active participation in one or more opensource projects.

A day in the life of Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Technology

  • Work with your team to create, add, enhance or debug video asset workflow management to new heights and create an awe-inspiring experience for our fans worldwide!
  • Develop efficient services and infrastructure for media asset workflow automation - ingestion, encoding, transcoding, delivery & playback with QC.
  • Work with product teams to lead both new features and maintain important consumer-facing services.
  • Collaborate with our teams and ensure they are successful in ingesting video content, management, and its distribution / consumption.
  • Establish mechanisms to ensure the ingested content is delivered to our end-users in an optimized and secured manner (protected with DRM).
  • Collaborate with client engineering teams, infrastructure, and core system teams, ensuring the highest quality video playback to fans.
  • Build and support Crunchyroll video supply chain platform. 
  • Work with program management to ensure that all individual projects are appropriately supported and delivered successfully.
  • Ensure application software development process is deployed accurately for all projects.

About our Values

We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value

  • Courage. We believe that 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.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

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.

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.

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