Staff DevOps Engineer, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Who We Are

We're a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.

About the Team

At Crunchyroll, our Core Infrastructure Engineering team forms the foundation on which our services are built and directly influence our customer experience and the velocity of our engineers. Our team focus is to ensure that our developers are enabled, self-service, that everything about our infrastructure is automated and that our services are highly reliable and scalable.

About the Role:

As a Staff DevOps Engineer within the Core Infrastructure Engineering team, you are essential in automating and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform. You will work with our SRE team, delivery teams and lead projects related to infrastructure automation, scaling, CICD, driving them forward to completion and ensuring that the platform processes, automation and best practices are being followed. In collaboration with other engineers, you develop tools and systems that support services and facilitate high-quality software delivery and architecture / infrastructure. You are expected to be highly collaborative working across teams to understand the needs, establish best practices and automate them whenever possible.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering and this role may be fully remote in the United States.

About you

• 12+ years of relevant experience in DevOps and infrastructure management.
• 8+ years working in production environments, combining DevOps and software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in Kubernetes or ECS.
• Proficiency in automation, creating reusable patterns and solutions.
• Expertise in GitOps practices and CI/CD, including tools like ArgoCD and infrastructure automation within CI/CD.
• 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud technologies, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.
• Proficient in TypeScript in a software engineering environment.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Experience guiding software engineers in production best practices, sharing knowledge across teams.
• Design and deployment experience with data sovereignty-driven designs (e.g., GDPR).
• Collaboration with other engineers to build tools and systems supporting services and facilitating high-quality software delivery.
• Willingness to be on-call

Pluses

• Pulumi
• Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery
• Key security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, security protocols

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

Not only will you get to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also...

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Enjoy flexible PTO and time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
• Appreciate the generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance options for you and your family.
• Take advantage of our health saving account HSA program plus health care and dependent care FSA programs.
• Love that we offer an employer match on our 401(k) plan.
• Receive employer paid commuter benefit (for eligible employees)
• Appreciate the generous support program for new parents
• Obtain pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!

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