Crunchyroll
Software Engineer III, Playback Services
San Francisco, CA, United States · Mid
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About the role
- In the role of Video Playback Services Software Engineer III, you will report to the Senior Engineering Manager, Playback Services.
- A primary focus for this role will be advancing Content Protection / Security initiatives.
- Take ownership of projects that improve content protection and security services, playback latency, streaming security, content publishing, and avails testing.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve backend services and APIs that support secure, reliable video playback.
- Deliver well-scoped projects from design through deployment, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with product, QA, and adjacent engineering teams to ship high-quality features and operational improvements.
- Strengthen the team's ability to support and evolve content protection and security-related systems by contributing in a specialized area that is critical to future roadmap execution.
- Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, testing practices, and technical documentation to improve overall engineering quality.
- Identify technical risks and dependency gaps early, then work with the right stakeholders to drive them to closure.
- Can independently own well-scoped projects from design to deployment and make sound technical decisions with the right stakeholder input.
- Can debug moderate to complex service issues and improve systems through testing, documentation, observability, and maintainable design.
- Communicate clearly, collaborate effectively across functions, and proactively surface risks, trade-offs, and dependency concerns.
- Support program for new parents
Requirements
- Have strong experience with backend programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, or similar.
- Have hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP and are comfortable working with distributed systems in production.
Compensation
- The Pay Range for this position is listed.
- $16,900 - $205,000 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!
- The Video Platform teams build the systems that power
- About our Values
- We want to be everything for someone rather than something for everyone and we do this by living and modeling our values in all that we do.
- Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
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