Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$233k-$292kDetected 7 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsGCPKubernetesTerraformCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityPenetration TestingSOC OperationsZero TrustLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • We are hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Center for Data & Insights (CDI) in the US and play a critical role in advancing the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of Crunchyroll's consumer-facing data platforms.
  • The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems with a strong sense of ownership, collaboration, and service leadership.
  • Reliability Engineering: Define, measure, and continuously improve the reliability, availability, and performance of CDI platforms through SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Responsibilities

  • You will drive initiatives across observability, incident management, automation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and operational excellence while helping teams adopt modern SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
  • This is a unique opportunity to shape reliability and security engineering practices across CDI while helping build a world-class data and insights ecosystem that enables informed decision-making throughout Crunchyroll.
  • Establish and drive best practices for incident management, root cause analysis, postmortems, and service ownership across engineering teams.
  • Build and evolve comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities to enable proactive issue detection and rapid resolution.
  • Operational Excellence: Establish and drive best practices for incident management, root cause analysis, postmortems, and service ownership across engineering teams.
  • Observability & Monitoring: Build and evolve comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities to enable proactive issue detection and rapid resolution.
  • Automation: Identify operational inefficiencies and develop automation, self-service capabilities, and self-healing mechanisms to improve engineering productivity.
  • Infrastructure Engineering: Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), platform standardization, and deployment automation to improve consistency, reliability, and operational agility.
  • Disaster Recovery & Resilience: Develop and regularly validate disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies to ensure platform resiliency.
  • Security Operations (SecOps): Partner with Crunchyroll's security team to integrate security controls, operational risk management, and security best practices into platform operations and engineering workflows.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related disciplines, with a proven track record of operating and scaling production-critical systems.
  • Solid foundation in Linux systems administration, networking, and distributed systems, with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across multiple layers of the technology stack.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming and scripting languages, such as Go, Python, Java, or Shell, with a focus on automation and platform engineering.
  • Hands-on experience with modern observability platforms and practices, including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent monitoring and telemetry solutions.
  • Demonstrated expertise in incident management, service reliability, capacity planning, performance optimization, and operational excellence, including the implementation of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
  • Strong understanding of cloud and platform security, including container security, Kubernetes security, CI/CD security, vulnerability management, and secure infrastructure operations.

Compensation

  • The Pay Range for this position is listed.
  • $233,400 - $291,800 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.
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