Staff Software Engineer
Crunchyroll, LLC15 hours ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and ship production software including services, APIs, data models, user interfaces, integrations, tests, and operational tooling.
- Direct AI coding agents through specifications, acceptance criteria, implementation plans, and verification steps.
- Review and own AI-generated code, tests, pull requests, and migrations for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Establish repeatable AI-assisted engineering practices, delivery templates, repository access patterns, context setup, and automated verification.
- Design and implement integration-heavy, data-intensive, and workflow-driven enterprise systems.
- Track delivery metrics including cycle time, quality, rework, test coverage, cost, adoption, and operational health.
- Partner with Product, Security, business stakeholders, and Enterprise Technology teams.
- Improve testing, review, observability, documentation, and operational practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience building and shipping production software as a hands-on engineer, senior individual contributor, technical lead, or Staff-level contributor.
- Strong production experience with Python and/or TypeScript across backend, frontend, data, API, or cloud-native systems.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding agents or tools such as Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Codex, Cursor, or similar systems.
- Strong judgment reviewing AI-generated code and determining where human oversight is required.
- Experience building or integrating services, APIs, relational data stores, event-driven systems, and user-facing workflows.
- Familiarity with cloud-native development, preferably GCP, including CI/CD, monitoring, security scanning, and cost-aware engineering.
- Understanding of secure engineering practices, role-based access, SSO, audit logging, and enterprise controls.
- Ability to influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, raise quality across a significant system or project area, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise systems, business applications, workflow or data platforms, internal tools, developer-facing tools, media or streaming platforms, data migration, compliance-sensitive systems, SOX controls, audit-heavy environments, and complex enterprise integrations.
- Preferred experience with LLM or agent observability tools such as Datadog, LangSmith, Langfuse, or similar systems.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision private insurance coverage.
- 24/7 counseling and mental health sessions through the Employee Assistance Program.
- Free premium Crunchyroll access.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Paid parental leave of up to 26 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Hybrid work schedule with the role located in Hyderabad and on-site Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
- Paid Time Off, Flex Time Off, and 5 Yasumi Days.
- Half-day Fridays during the summer and winter break.
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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.