Senior Data Engineer, Crunchyroll
Platform Engineering
$167.2-209k
+ Performance bonus
Streaming service for anime and manga
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Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$167.2-209k
+ Performance bonus
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 data engineering, with a focus on building and optimizing data pipelines, data architecture, and eventing systems
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud platform and their data-related services
- Proficiency in automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation)
- Proficiency in data lake and pipeline tools and frameworks (e.g., Databricks, Apache Kafka/Kinesis, AWS Glue)
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Java)
- Strong understanding of SQL (e.g. Redshift, Snowflake, RDS) and NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and experience in enabling analytical queries on these platforms
- Experience with search optimization, including schema design and query tuning
- Experience in building CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks (e.g. dbt), and best practices in data engineering
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues
- Ability to independently own and execute projects while effectively collaborating with the team to influence and shape the vision of the data engineering organization
- Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers
What the job involves
- Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing data services and pipelines, ensuring that our data services support the needs of the business
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable operational data analysis, enhance eventing systems, and develop tools that empower our data and services teams
- Your expertise will also be critical in driving 100% automation, best practices, creating scalable architectures, and optimizing our data environments
- This role will report into our Director of Data Engineering - Platform 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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
9% employee growth in 12 months
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 values
- 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
Company HQ
Lucerne - Higuera, Culver City, CA
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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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