Crunchyroll
Senior Software Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States · Senior
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About the role
- In the role of Senior Software Engineer for Concepts Lab, you will report to the VP of the Concepts Lab.
- We are considering applicants for the location of Los Angeles, CA (onsite).
- As a Senior Software Engineer in Concepts Lab, you will take the lab's validated experiments into production and embed directly with the teams who will run them long-term.
Responsibilities
- The lab moves in short cycles, so you will decide when to prototype quickly and when to build something meant to last, and each engagement ends with a real handoff, not a demo.
- The team is small, which makes your work visible: the systems you build become the foundation the receiving team adopts, and the standards you set for testing, documentation, and release safety become the standard they inherit.
- Design, build, and ship the software behind the lab's experiments directly inside production environments, turning unclear asks into a crisp plan and a milestone path.
- Embed with delivery teams for the duration of each engagement, working within their systems and conventions to implement and build out the lab's experiments.
- Mentor the engineers and contractors who collaborate with us, contribute to hiring, and help shape how Crunchyroll Engineering builds software.
- The team partners closely with engineering, product, and business leaders to test assumptions, build evidence, and transition validated concepts into delivery teams.
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Requirements
- You have built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and integrated automated testing into them.
- You have carried operational ownership for services you built: runbooks, diagnostics, and incident follow-through.
Nice to have
- Experience in media, streaming, or gaming
- Experience working in an innovation lab, incubation environment, or R&D organization
- Experience with agentic coding tools and frameworks (Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable) used across the full development cycle
- Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
Skills
- The Concepts Lab is Crunchyroll's R&D and incubation group, focused on exploring new ideas, technologies, and experiences for anime fans.
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
- $183,400 - $229,200 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.
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!
- Build and help deliver experiences to our internal experimental environment. Own its reliability, deployment path, and the ability to stand a new experiment up quickly.
- Own production health during the engagement, including security patching, dependency upgrades, bug reduction, scaling work, runbooks, and documentation, shared on a rotation across the team.
- Set the technical bar for the lab's software work, including design reviews, code quality, test coverage, observability, cost management, and security practices.
- Lead the handoff of validated experiments to the long-term owning team, so what graduates out of the lab arrives documented, supportable, and fully owned by the receiving team.
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