Data Engineer III

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 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.

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.

• 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 Type Script and Python.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable applications/services using Type Script and Python and modern backend frameworks (Node.js preferred).
• Build event‑driven architectures and event interfaces using AWS services such as SNS/SQS, Event Bridge, Kinesis, or Kafka.
• Deep understanding of AWS Processing Framework like Step Functions.
• Architect and optimize database schemas and queries for relational (RDS Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL), No
  
  SQL (Dynamo
  
  DB) 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.

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 Type Script (Node.js) and Python.
• Experience in building applications/services using Type Script 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, Event Bridge, Kinesis).
• Strong database design skills across relational (RDS Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL), No
  
  SQL (Dynamo
  
  DB) and Graph Database (Neo4j).
• Excellent…