Data Engineer, Crunchyroll
$148-205.1k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Offers performance bonus
Streaming service for anime and manga
Be an early applicant
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$148-205.1k
Actual salary range is dependent on location. Offers 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
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, specializing in microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems
- Strong expertise in TypeScript (Node.js) and Python
- Experience in building applications/services using TypeScript and Python and modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred)
- Deep understanding of cloud-based architectures (AWS preferred), including serverless frameworks, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and event interfaces (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis)
- Strong database design skills across relational (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB) and Graph Database (Neo4j)
- Excellent problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
Desirable
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or Graph RAG architectures
- Knowledge of fine-tuning and optimizing LLMs for performance and cost efficiency
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing data services, ensuring that our data services support the needs of the business
- You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to 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 services, and optimizing our data environments
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented API and code while adhering to industry best practices, including code reviews and design patterns
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring that both frontend and backend components are optimized for speed and reliability
- Contribute to the automation and optimization of build, deployment, and monitoring processes to support a smooth development lifecycle
- Develop and maintain comprehensive test suites (unit and integration) to ensure system reliability and robustness
- Implement and maintain security best practices, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations
- Must be proficient in both TypeScript and Python
- Design, build, and maintain scalable applications/services using TypeScript and Python and modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred)
- Build event-driven architectures and event interfaces using AWS services such as SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, or Kafka
- Deep understanding of AWS Processing Framework like Step Functions
- Architect and optimize database schemas and queries for relational (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB) and Graph Database (Neo4j)
- Collaborate with service engineers, data engineers, and product teams to deliver high-quality software solutions
- Apply best practices for code quality, security, testing, and performance optimization
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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