DevOps Engineer

Staff Dev Ops Engineer

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Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community and serves over 100 million fans across 200+ countries.

The Cloud Reliability team within Infrastructure Engineering builds the foundation for our streaming services and directly influences customer experience and engineering velocity. We enable developers with self‑service, automation, and highly reliable, scalable infrastructure.

As a Staff Dev Ops Engineer you will automate, scale, and secure the systems that power our platform. You will lead projects in infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and best practices, build tools that support services, and partner with development teams to drive high‑quality delivery.

You have a strong background in Dev Ops and infrastructure as code, and you mentor and collaborate across teams to continuously improve our platform. You thrive in a collaborative environment and set an example in quality and standards.

• At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, or similar.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in Dev Ops and infrastructure management.
• 8+ years working in production environments, combining Dev Ops and software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience managing containerized infrastructure in ECS or Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in automation, creating reusable patterns and solutions.
• Expertise in Git Ops practices and CI/CD, including tools like Git Hub Actions, Code Deploy, and infrastructure automation within CI/CD.
• 5+ years experience in AWS and its major services such as ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Pulumi and Terraform.
• Proficient in programming in Type Script with familiarity of other languages such as Go or Python.
• Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) and non‑relational databases (e.g., Dynamo
  
  DB).
• Experience guiding software engineers in production best practices and 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.

• Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and scale challenges.
• Familiarity with big data and payments domain.
• Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security protocols.
• Experience with Vault, Packer or other Hashi Corp tools.
• Knowledge or working experience with GCP.

• Compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential.
• Flexible time off policies.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) program.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Employer‑paid commuter benefit.
• Support program for new parents.
• Pet insurance and pet friendly offices.

Pay range (Los Angeles, CA): $200,000—$249,000 USD.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity suant 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.