Job Summary:
Crunchyroll is a global leader in delivering anime and manga content to a passionate community. As a Senior Database Engineer, you will maintain and enhance the reliability of data infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and availability of data services for the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Maintain and enhance the reliability of our data infrastructure.
• Collaborate with data engineers and software engineers to develop and drive 100% automation, best practices for deep monitoring and alerting.
Qualifications:
Required:
• You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• You have 8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, database operations, or a related role with a focus on data platforms, data stores, data operations.
• You have experience with AWS cloud platform and their data-related services.
• You are proficient in monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, CloudWatch, DevOps Guru, DB Performance Insights).
• You are proficient in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Java).
• You have a strong understanding of various performance metrics both at a high level and at a low level like Disk/IO saturation.
• You have experience in identifying and eliminating the bottlenecks in the system.
• You have a strong understanding of database internals like types of indexes, schemas, query plans.
• You have a strong understanding of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and experience in managing large-scale data infrastructures.
• At least basic knowledge in automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation).
• At least basic knowledge and some hands-on implementation of CI/CD pipelines and DataOps practices.
• You have experience with data governance, compliance, and lifecycle management.
• You have strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.
• You're able to work independently and own projects while effectively collaborating with the team to influence and shape the vision of the data engineering organization.
• You have strong communication skills and can mentor and guide junior engineers.
Company:
Crunchyroll is a video service provider for Japanese animated productions and Asian media services. It is a sub-organization of Ellation. Founded in 2008, the company is headquartered in Tokyo, JPN, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.