Senior Software Engineer
Crunchyroll, LLC8 hours ago
Base Salary
$183k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and deliver software experiences for the internal experimental environment while owning its reliability, deployment path, and rapid experiment setup.
- Design, build, and ship experimental software in production environments, translating ambiguous requests into plans and milestones.
- Embed with delivery teams to implement experiments within their codebases, systems, and conventions.
- Own production health through security patching, dependency upgrades, bug reduction, scaling, runbooks, documentation, and operational rotations.
- Set technical standards for design reviews, code quality, test coverage, observability, cost management, and security practices.
- Lead documented, supportable handoffs of validated experiments to long-term owning teams.
- Mentor engineers and contractors, contribute to hiring, and help shape Crunchyroll’s software engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Experience designing systems with multiple components communicating across API or service boundaries and anticipating failure modes.
- Production-grade Python and/or TypeScript experience and a history of building software adopted by other engineers.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing.
- Experience using AI, agentic coding tools, and related workflows to accelerate delivery while maintaining correctness and production safety.
- Experience owning operations for self-built services, including runbooks, diagnostics, and incident follow-through.
- Experience working in early-stage, ambiguous environments and deciding when to prototype versus build for long-term use.
- Experience in media, streaming, gaming, innovation labs, incubation environments, or R&D organizations is preferred.
- Experience with agentic coding tools and frameworks such as Claude Code or Cursor is preferred.
Benefits
- Salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- Flexible time off policies.
- Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Health Savings Account and health care and dependent care FSA programs.
- 401(k) plan with employer match.
- Employer-paid commuter benefit, new-parent support program, pet insurance, and some pet-friendly offices.
- The position is listed for Los Angeles, California, as onsite, with the posting also tagged hybrid.
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About Crunchyroll, LLC
Crunchyroll, LLC runs a global anime-focused streaming service with subscription and ad-supported tiers, plus manga, games, theatrical releases, and an e-commerce store for merchandise. It serves fans in 200+ countries and territories and monetizes through subscriptions, advertising, and retail. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, it is owned by Sony through a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Aniplex.