Crunchyroll
Software Engineer III, Media Delivery
San Francisco, CA, United States · Mid
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$24,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
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About the role
- Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
- Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
Responsibilities
- Build multi-CDN delivery infrastructure to intelligently route global traffic based on performance, availability, and cost.
- Design fault-tolerant AWS and GCP cloud architectures that remove single points of failure in the delivery path.
- Develop high-volume networking solutions between cloud origins, CDNs, and playback services.
- Implement end-to-end observability (metrics, tracing, logging, SLOs, and alerts) to rapidly resolve playback issues.
- Harden platform security by proactively scanning for vulnerabilities and building secure-by-default infrastructure.
- Own full end-to-end service lifecycles, including design, deployment, on-call incident response, and continuous optimization.
- Troubleshoot complex production delivery issues across software, infrastructure, networks, and vendor partners.
- Collaborate with external CDN and cloud providers to optimize performance and resolve delivery bottlenecks.
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards for scale and maintainability.
- In this role, you will own and drive:
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency in TypeScript (or another modern language) for application services and infrastructure automation.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and best practices.
- Experience operating high-volume CDN architectures (e.g., Fastly, Akamai, Google Media CDN, Cloudflare).
- Experience with Datadog (or similar tools) configuring metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and alerts.
- Proven track record of diagnosing and fixing complex production incidents across software and vendors.
- The Media Delivery team sits within Video Platform Engineering, driving the infrastructure that powers Crunchyroll's global streaming experience.
Nice to have
- Production experience with AWS cloud infrastructure (GCP experience is a plus).
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
Benefits
- Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
- 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.
- Enhance reliability using automated health detection, failover, and self-healing mechanisms.
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!
This listing is sourced directly from Crunchyroll's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.