DevOps Engineer

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!

At Crunchyroll, our Cloud Reliability team within the 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. Cloud Reliability team members will engage directly with development teams on helping them become empowered and effective at delivering on our Infrastructure.

As a Staff Dev Ops Engineer within the Infrastructure Engineering team, you are essential in automating and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform. You will work with our Dev Ops 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 also play a key role in partnering with our development teams and understanding their needs and assisting them in their journey.

You will report to the Senior Manager, Cloud Reliability - Infrastructure Engineering. We consider applicants for our Los Angeles, CA or San Francisco, CA offices. We work a hybrid schedule, in-office 3 days a week.

The ideal candidate for the Staff Dev Ops Engineer role has a strong background in Dev Ops, automation, infrastructure as code and enabling software engineers to deliver independently and safely  have experience in building and scaling high-availability systems, with a focus on operational excellence. This role involves leading and mentoring other engineers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and continually improving our technology platform and infrastructure.

Your ability to excel in a collaborative environment sets an example for fellow engineers, contributing to a culture of high quality and standards in all aspects of our work.

• At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, 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 GHA & Code Deploy and infrastructure automation within CI/CD.
• 5+ years experience in AWS and its major services such as ECS, S3, SQS, Lambda, containerization, utilizing 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, 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…