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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!
About the Team
The Data Services team is focused on building robust, scalable, and efficient data services, pipelines, lakes, tools, libraries, and software components that drive best practices and empower service teams to succeed. We design and implement data services, pipelines and data lakes for operational analysis, ensuring they are production-ready with automation and standardized access controls.
We lead and evangelize the principle of 100% automation. Additionally, we establish best practices, provide training, and document data architectures to ensure our systems are reliable, future-ready, and capable of continuous evolution and process improvement across the organization.
About the Role
Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The Data Engineering team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
As a Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing data services, ensuring that our data services support the needs of the business. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance eventing systems, and develop tools that empower our data and services teams. Your expertise will also be critical in driving 100% automation, best practices, creating scalable services, and optimizing our data environments.
Key Areas of Responsibility

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented API and code while adhering to industry best practices, including code reviews and design patterns.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring that both frontend and backend components are optimized for speed and reliability.
• Contribute to the automation and optimization of build, deployment, and monitoring processes to support a smooth development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive test suites (unit and integration) to ensure system reliability and robustness.
• Implement and maintain security best practices, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
• Must be proficient in both TypeScript and Python
• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications/services using TypeScript and Python and modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred).
• Build event-driven architectures and event interfaces using AWS services such as SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, or Kafka.
• Deep understanding of AWS Processing Framework like Step Functions
• Architect and optimize database schemas and queries for relational (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB) and Graph Database (Neo4j).
• Collaborate with service engineers, data engineers, and product teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Apply best practices for code quality, security, testing, and performance optimization.

About you
We get excited about candidates, like you, because...

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, specializing in microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript (Node.js) and Python.
• Experience in building applications/services using TypeScript and Python and modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred).
• Deep understanding of cloud-based architectures (AWS preferred), including serverless frameworks, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures and event interfaces (Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis).
• Strong database design skills across relational (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL (DynamoDB) and Graph Database (Neo4j).
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

NIce to Have:

• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or Graph RAG architectures.
• Knowledge of fine-tuning and optimizing LLMs for performance and cost efficiency.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll
In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

• 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
• 401(k) plan, with employer match
• Employer paid commuter benefit
• Support program for new parents
• Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!

#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. 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.
Pay Transparency - Los Angeles, CA
$148,000-$185,000 USD
The Pay Range for this position is listed. Actual pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to location, experience, and performance. 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.
Pay Transparency - San Francisco, CA
$164,100-$205,100 USD
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. We value

• Courage. We believe that when we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
• Curiosity. We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
• Kaizen. We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.
• Service. We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Our mission of helping people belong reflects our commitment to diversity & inclusion. It's just the way we do business.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. 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.
Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan's Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.
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