Crunchyroll
Senior Software Engineer, EDGE Discovery
San Francisco, CA, United States · Senior
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$17,787 more — $221,187 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,187 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- The EDGE Discovery team at Crunchyroll is focused on powering content discoverability experiences across the platform.
- Our systems power critical user journeys, including home page personalization, search, recommendations, metadata delivery, content ranking, and discovery APIs across all Crunchyroll platforms and devices.
- We operate at the intersection of backend platform engineering, large-scale distributed systems, and machine-learning enablement, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, relevance, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, platform, and data organizations
- Ability to influence technical direction and drive alignment in highly cross-functional environments
- We build and evolve the backend systems that enable anime fans worldwide to seamlessly discover, browse, search, and engage with Crunchyroll's catalog through personalized, highly scalable experiences.
- Support program for new parents
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale backend systems and microservices architectures
- Strong proficiency in backend development, distributed systems design, API architecture, and cloud-native technologies
- Experience operating high-traffic services in production environments with strong understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and reliability engineering principles
- Experience with search systems, recommendation platforms, personalization systems, metadata services, or large-scale content delivery architectures, preferably in a streaming environment
- Strong understanding of caching strategies, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, and distributed data consistency patterns
- Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms, including modern infrastructure and deployment patterns
- Strong experience with large-scale video streaming, media, or consumer content platforms, including an understanding of the performance, reliability, and scale requirements of streaming user experiences
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
- $203,400 - $235,000 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!
- We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with deep backend engineering expertise and a strong track record of building scalable distributed systems.
- 401(k) plan, with employer match
This listing is sourced directly from Crunchyroll's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.