Software Engineer, Crunchyroll
Content Delivery
$142-177k
Streaming service for anime and manga
Open for applications
Streaming service for anime and manga
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$142-177k
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
- 7+ years of engineering in building cloud-native applications, with a strong focus on backend development and microservices architecture
- Experience in Typescript/Node.js or Golang
- Experience with databases, including DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, MySQL or PostgresDB
- Extensive experience with AWS, developing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud-native applications in API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, ECS, S3, and DynamoDB
- Experience in CI/CD and SDLC processes, specifically with GitHub Actions, IaC(Pulumi), serverless architectures, and creating unit and integration tests
- Experience in operational excellence (on-call rotations, incident management)
- Experience in writing and evaluating clean, functional, high-quality, and testable code across various projects
- Thrive in Agile and collaborative environments, leveraging insights and expertise to develop technical solutions that resonate with our users
- Positive, proactive, and solution-oriented team player who inspires and motivates others
Desirable
- Experience in Search domain
- Familiarity with video or content management systems
- Active participation in one or more open source projects
- Experience with implementing and operating systems using event-driven architectures
- Experience measuring and modeling cost and performance metrics of cloud services
What the job involves
- This role will report into Crunchyroll's Content Delivery Engineering Manager. This role is eligible to be fully remote in the United States
- Work with engineers, product managers, and project managers to implement new features across Crunchyroll's Content Delivery
- Improve the scalability of our services through proper planning and load testing
- Improve the availability of our platform through better monitoring, performance reporting, and error reporting
- Improve the server response times of our APIs by profiling, identifying, and eliminating bottlenecks
- Consider system security in every design decision
- Work with operations to evaluate new infrastructure
- Research and generate ways to serve our customers
- Plan, analyze, and optimize to help our team growth
- Support and improve internal processes
- Collaborate with other teams within the company
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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