Staff DevOps Engineer, Crunchyroll
Embedded Cloud Reliability
$210-255k
+ Performance bonus earnings, paid annually
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Streaming service for anime and manga
Job no longer available
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$210-255k
+ Performance bonus earnings, paid annually
More information about location
2 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
- 12+ years of experience in building and running high volume customer facing services in highly dynamic environments in Software Engineering, Site Reliability, or related roles
- Experienced in mentoring other engineers and helping guide them towards success
- Leads complex projects spanning multiple teams. Drives technical issues towards resolution and builds strong relationships across engineering
- BS Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Proficient in programming in TypeScript with familiarity of other languages such as Go or Python
- Experienced in automation, infra as code, and making reusable patterns
- Passionate about improving the reliability and performance of critical services through the use of monitoring, metrics, incident management, and proactive engineering. Has helped investigate and remediate critical issues in production services and infrastructure
- Knowledgeable in performance and load testing tools and methods to simulate production workloads
- Expert in observability tools such as DataDog and has hands-on experience instrumenting services for monitoring, logging, metrics collection, tracing
- Acts with urgency, ownership, and with a mindset of continuous improvement
- Able to participate in an on-call rotation to ensure issues are resolved as quickly as possible and prevented from further occurrence
- Highly collaborative, team oriented, possessing excellent communication skills, and able to communicate effectively with different audiences
- Experienced in GitOps practices and technologies (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, etc)
- 5+ years experience in AWS and its major services such as ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, containerization
- Experienced with database technologies such as RDS and DynamoDB
Desirable
- Extensive experience with scaling and managing relational databases and nosql technologies
- Experience with ElasticSearch
- 2+ years of experience in GCP and its common services such as GKE, Artifact Repository, Google VPC
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join Cloud Reliability
- As part of the team, you will work closely with Crunchyroll’s service development teams on their platform and infrastructure needs with an emphasis on improving system stability, engineering efficiency, and creating mechanisms allowing for greater self-sufficiency
- You will be a champion of operational excellence within these teams and a bar raiser
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader for the team, identifying issues common across various development teams, working with our core platform teams on solving them, owning major internal infrastructure projects, and driving improvements throughout our platform
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
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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