Principal Engineer, Engineering Practices
Crunchyroll, LLC2 months ago
Base Salary
$260k - $326k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineering leadership to translate business priorities into long-term technical strategy.
- Identify technology investments that improve scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity.
- Develop reusable architectural patterns, reference implementations, engineering guidance, and best practices.
- Guide teams through architectural tradeoffs and facilitate technical design discussions for high-impact initiatives.
- Coach and mentor Principal, Staff, Senior, and emerging technical leaders across the organization.
- Lead architecture workshops, technical learning sessions, and engineering forums.
- Capture institutional knowledge through documentation, playbooks, architecture patterns, and reference materials.
- Identify recurring engineering challenges and create scalable solutions that benefit multiple engineering domains.
- Improve onboarding, knowledge transfer, and continuous technical learning across Engineering.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in Software Engineering.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, mentoring, and influence-through-credibility skills.
- Technical expertise across the full stack, including the ability to guide front-end, back-end, and infrastructure teams.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating services at large scale.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leaders.
- Hands-on engineering experience, including coding, validating designs, investigating difficult problems, and contributing to critical initiatives.
- Ability to balance long-term architectural direction with pragmatic delivery and evaluate tradeoffs across scalability, reliability, security, performance, cost, complexity, and time to market.
- Experience defining architecture principles, patterns, and best practices across multiple teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Salary plus annual performance bonus earning potential.
- 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.
- San Francisco, California location with a hybrid work arrangement.
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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.