Senior Database Reliability Engineer, Crunchyroll
$203.4-254.2k
Streaming service for anime and manga
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Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
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$203.4-254.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create experiences for anime and manga fans, and to enable them to connect through the content they love.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in database operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or a related role with a heavy focus on data platforms and core operational infrastructure
- Strong proficiency in Automation and IaC frameworks, with extensive hands-on experience in building database IaC
- Proven track record in Database Production Support and Operations, with deep practical experience managing robust, highly available 24x7 runtime systems (prior experience handling large-scale database production support at scale is highly valued)
- Extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform and hands-on implementation of CI/CD pipelines and DatabaseOps workflows
- Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, DevOps Guru, Database Performance Insights) to track metrics, latency, throughput, and system errors
- Strong understanding of various system performance metrics at a low level (such as Disk/IO saturation) and experience identifying or eliminating operational bottlenecks
- Familiarity with managing large-scale database structures across various systems (SQL and NoSQL)
- Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, proactive communication skills, and a baseline capability to document clear incident response playbooks and operational requirements
What the job involves
- As a Senior Database Reliability Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for operating, improving, and maintaining the reliability and operational excellence of our data infrastructure
- Your core focus will be to introduce robust best practices for database production support, strengthen our global on-call rotation, and design and build reusable, database-specific Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components to ensure high availability, scalability, and 100% automation
- Database Operational Excellence & Production Support: Drive, stabilize, and own 24x7 database production support operations, processes, and incident remediation. Responsibly track database alerts, establish clear operational procedures, and bring infrastructure alerts to rapid closure
- Database Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation: Architect, implement, and maintain reusable database-specific IaC components and configurations using frameworks like Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi. Standardize configurations across multiple datastores to enable automated infrastructure deployment, sizing, and posture management
- Core Configuration Management: Proactively enable and standardize mission-critical database attributes and configurations by default, including automated backups, failover strategies, timeouts, and lifecycle policies
- On-Call & Platform Reliability: Strengthen and actively participate in the database on-call rotation, identifying SLAs, system vulnerabilities, and operational gaps to eliminate Single Points of Failure (SPOF)
- Database SRE & Site Operations: Manage large-scale data infrastructures, execute cluster management, capacity planning, data governance, compliance reviews, and handle complex data store migrations (such as MariaDB to Aurora/DynamoDB) and major version upgrades safely during non-US low traffic hours
- Collaborative Growth & Development: Work alongside a seasoned team of database engineering specialists (leveraging existing senior architectural depth on the team) to systematically scale platform features while executing a continuous learning roadmap to expand personal depth in native AWS database services (RDS/Aurora) and complex SQL tuning
- The Database Operations Engineering team is dedicated to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data infrastructure
- We focus on standardizing and implementing monitoring and alerting across all datastores to track key metrics like errors, latency, and throughput, and to ensure critical systems are covered
- Our team leads horizontal efforts to keep databases up-to-date, implements Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for high availability and performance, and automates key processes to enhance operational efficiency
- We lead and evangelize the principle of 100% automation
- Additionally, we define and document operational requirements, develop incident response processes, and automate monitoring and compliance checks to maintain a secure and reliable data environment
- By continuously improving load testing and optimizing data governance practices, we support the overall health and efficiency of our data systems
Our take
In recent decades, anime - encompassing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese animation has transitioned from a niche interest to a formidable industry, boasting a global market worth approximately $30B. Despite this growth, distribution has historically posed challenges, with series and films often reaching overseas audiences through disparate channels, if at all. Crunchyroll emerged to address this issue by consolidating the largest collection of anime into a single streaming service.
Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll in 2021 for $1.75B expanded the platform's reach, integrating Sony's extensive animation library into its offerings. This move also positioned Crunchyroll for heightened competition against streaming giant Netflix, known for its substantial investments in anime production and acquisition. Currently, Crunchyroll maintains an unrivalled library of anime content, boasting over 44,000 episodes, attracting over 21M paying subscribers.
While Crunchyroll initially offered a free, ad-supported tier to its vast community, it appears poised to phase out this option, transitioning to a subscription-based model for all new series. Despite this shift, the platform has implemented a global reduction in fees to stimulate subscription uptake. The success of this strategy remains to be seen, but past experiences with companies like Hulu suggest that it may drive subscription growth and mitigate piracy
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2010
$0.8m
EARLY VC
Feb 2008
$4.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $4.9m
Company benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self
- Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Health Saving Account HSA program
- Health care and dependent care FSA
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- Support program for new parents
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Company HQ
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Crunchyroll in 2006 and served as CEO/General Manager/Board Member until 2018. Previously the founder and CTO of Frappr.com as well as a Product Engineer at HOT or NOT.
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