Crunchyroll
Senior Database Engineer
San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior
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About the role
- The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
- As a Database Engineer for the Data Engineering team, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the reliability of our data infrastructure.
- Your work will directly impact the availability and performance of our data services, enabling the organization to make data-driven decisions.
Responsibilities
- Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world.
- You will collaborate closely with data engineers, and software engineers to develop and drive 100% automation, best practices for deep monitoring and alerting.
- Drive deep application performance analysis.
- Own the identification, debugging, and elimination of query execution bottlenecks, optimizing raw SQL, missing indexes, execution plans, and data models to maximize throughput and minimize latency.
- SQL Optimization & Application Performance: Drive deep application performance analysis.
- Support program for new parents
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in database operations, or a related role with a focus on data platforms, data stores, data operations.
- Deep experience in AWS RDS, Aurora and NoSQL is a must.
- Extensive experience with AWS cloud platform and their data-related services.
- Proficiency in monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, DevOps Guru, DB Performance Insights).
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Java)
- Strong understanding of various performance metrics both at a high level and at a low level like Disk/IO saturation.
- Experience in identifying and eliminating the bottlenecks in the system.
- Experience with data governance, compliance, and lifecycle management.
Skills
- Strong understanding of database internals like types of indexes, schemas, query plans.
- Strong understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and experience in managing large-scale data infrastructures.
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
- $203,400 - $254,200 USD
Benefits
- 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
- Employer paid commuter benefit
- 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.
- 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.
Company info
- 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!
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
- Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!
Equal opportunity
- Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll.
This listing is sourced directly from Crunchyroll's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.