Staff Software Engineer, Digital Content Supply Chain

About Crunchyroll

Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.

Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!

Who We Are

We're a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.

About The Team

We are a team of enterprise technology professionals who oversee the Digital Content Supply Chain (DSC), workflow automation, cloud operations to power our modern media supply chain platform.

This is a hybrid position, located in our Dallas, TX office. The position reports to the Director, Software Engineering.

About You:

• Bachelor's of Science degree in computer science or related engineering degree.

• 12+ years of high-level API and application software development experience.

• 5+ years experience building scalable, serverless solutions in GCP or AWS

• 4+ years of experience in Python, MongoDB

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and streaming data services.

• Experience building cloud native infrastructure, serverless architecture, micro-operations, and workflow automation.

• Experience in Observability frameworks like Datadog for developing monitoring and alerting.

• Experience in Github, Gitlab, CI/CD, Jira, unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, and collaborative documentation.

• Comfortable supporting production systems and improving system resilience, scalability, and monitoring

Pluses:

• Familiarity with Digital Supply Chain, OTT, or MAM (Media Assets Management)

• Exposure to ML-based services, data enrichment pipelines, or intelligent decision systems.

• Active participation in one or more open source projects.

A day in the life of Staff Software Engineer, Digital Content Supply Chain:

• Create, build and deploy micro-services and frameworks to enable the digital supply chain at high scale

• Develop services and infrastructure for media asset workflow automation

• Work with product teams to lead both new features and maintain important consumer-facing services.

• Collaborate with our teams and ensure they are successful in ingesting video content, management, and its distribution / usage.

• Establish mechanisms to ensure the ingested content is delivered to our end-users in an optimized and secured manner (protected with DRM).

• Collaborate with client engineering teams, infrastructure, and core system teams, ensuring the highest quality video playback to fans.

• Build and support Crunchyroll Digital supply chain platform.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• 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!

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About our Values

We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do. We value

• Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.

• Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.

• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

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