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Senior DevOps Engineer, Core Infrastructure Engineering

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Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
193K-235K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
San Francisco, CA
193K-235K Annually
Senior level
The Senior DevOps Engineer will manage and scale systems supporting the streaming platform, drive projects, improve processes, and ensure operational excellence through collaboration and tooling.
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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!

About the role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the Core Infrastructure team, you are a key person in managing and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform. Your expertise in cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies enables you to take on complex challenges independently and create scalable solutions that meet our customers' needs. You will work with our delivery teams and lead projects, driving them forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes and best practices are being followed. In collaboration with other engineers, you develop tools and systems that support services and facilitate high-quality software delivery. You will work with our delivery teams to ensure that their systems are efficient and reliable, guide them to better quality and practices including observability and troubleshooting of services & incident management. You are expected to take initiatives to improve what we do overall, introduce new technologies & processes when it is needed and share knowledge across teams.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering.

About You

You have an in-depth understanding of Software and DevOps methodologies, automation, and infrastructure as code. Your experience in designing, building, and scaling high availability systems shows your commitment to operational excellence. You excel in a collaborative environment and can work well with your teammates, providing a good example to other engineers to achieve high quality and standards in everything they do.

Requirements:

  • At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.
  • 8+ years of experience working in production-level environments as a DevOps/SRE
  • Proficient in AWS cloud technologies, coupled with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Pulumi and Terraform
  • 3+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in ECS or Kubernetes
  • Experience in GitOps practices and CI/CD.
  • Experience managing Linux based infrastructure.
  • Experience with observability and instrumentation of services so that efficient dashboards and alerts are created.
  • Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL and non-relational databases like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
  • Experience with CDN and caching technologies including AWS CloudFront. 
  • Experience working with and guiding Software Engineers in production best practices, sharing knowledge across teams and teammates.
  • Experience in at least two or more scripting languages including TypeScript.
  • Able to accommodate periodic off-hour meetings with the international team members.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders.
  • Participate in an on-call and developer support rotations.
Pluses:
  • Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript
  • Familiarity with big data and payments domain.
  • Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security protocols.
  • Familiarity with Datadog
  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions
About the Team

At Crunchyroll, our Core Infrastructure Engineering team forms the foundation on which our services are built and directly influence our customer experience and the velocity of our engineers. Our team focus is to ensure that our developers are enabled, self-service, that everything about our infrastructure is automated and that our services are highly reliable and scalable.

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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The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Crunchyroll’s Total Rewards offerings for employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, employer matched retirement savings, time-off programs, and progressive health benefits and perks.
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$193,000$235,000 USD
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.

Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our Hiring FAQs: https://help.crunchyroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/360040471712-Crunchyroll-Hiring-FAQs

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Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email account.

Top Skills

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DynamoDB
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Github Actions
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Linux
MongoDB
MySQL
Postgres
Pulumi
Terraform
Typescript

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