Data Engineering Manager, Crunchyroll
$200-250k
+ Performance bonus earning potential
3+ days a week in office
Streaming service for anime and manga
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Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
+ Performance bonus earning potential
3+ days a week in office
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
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering and software development
- 3+ years of people management experience
- Solid knowledge of data architecture, pipelines, and governance
- Experience optimizing data systems
- Experience with BI tools (i.e. Tableau or Superset)
- Experience managing large-scale data sets, handling Terabytes of data and billions of records (across structured and unstructured datasets
- Experience implementing compute and orchestration tools like Databricks and Airflow
- Experience with AWS services (i.e. EMR Spark, Redshift, and S3) or GCP services (i.e. BigQuery, Google Storage, Looker or Google Analytics)
- Experience in event data collection tools such as Snowplow, Segment, Google Tag Manager, Tealium, or mParticle
- Experience translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights
- Willingness to explore the latest technologies
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Manager, Data Engineering to play a crucial role in our mission to establish a world-class Data Engineering team within the Center for Data and Insights (CDI) and reshape the future of our data-centric aspirations as we aim for new heights. You will help grow our data engineering capabilities in the AWS and GCP ecosystems by collaborating with the data team and implementing several projects across data architecture, data lake infrastructure, and job orchestration. You will ensure the consistency and reliability of data and insights, aligning with our objective of promoting well-informed decision-making
- You will demonstrate an empathetic and service-oriented approach, promoting a successful data and insights culture while enhancing and safeguarding our data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to build our data engineering platforms globally. If you are an experienced professional with experience in impactful data engineering projects and are committed to driving transformative changes, we encourage you to explore this role
- Be the go-to expert for data engineering best practices, architecture, and latest technologies
- Provide strategic guidance on data platform modernization, scalability, and governance
- Stay ahead of industry trends, ensuring the team adopts modern solutions
- Lead technical training sessions, upskilling engineers on advanced data engineering concepts
- Foster a culture of learning, encouraging innovation and experimentation
- Be the trusted advisor to interdepartmental teams, ensuring clear agreement between business and technical goals
- Represent the data engineering function in executive discussions, advocating for scalable solutions
- Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering teams to promote data-driven decision-making
- Establish data governance policies, ensuring compliance and security
- Design and increase scalable data pipelines, ensuring efficiency and reliability
- Troubleshoot complex data challenges, providing expert-level solutions
- Guide the team in evaluating new tools and technologies, balancing innovation with stability
- In the role of Manager, Data Engineering, you will report to the Senior Director, Data Engineering
Our take
In recent decades, anime - encompassing Japanese, Korean, and Chinese animation 0 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 unrivaled library of anime content, boasting over 44,000 episodes that have attracted over 0M 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
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
Leadership
Kun Gao
(Co-Founder)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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