Crunchyroll · 2 days ago
Staff DevOps Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$221K/yr - $277K/yr
12+ years expCrunchyroll is a leading platform delivering anime and manga to a global audience. They are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to automate and scale their systems, ensuring high-quality software delivery and infrastructure reliability while collaborating with various engineering teams.
Subscription ServiceVideo
Responsibilities
Automating and scaling the systems and services that power our streaming platform
Working with the DevOps team and delivery teams on infrastructure automation, scaling, and CICD projects
Ensuring that platform processes, automation, and best practices are followed
Developing tools and systems that support services and facilitate high-quality software delivery and architecture/infrastructure
Collaborating with other engineers to understand needs, establish best practices, and automate them whenever possible
Partnering with development teams to understand their needs and assist them in their journey
Qualification
Required
At least a Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar
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 ECS or Kubernetes
Proficiency in automation, creating reusable patterns and solutions
Expertise in GitOps practices and CI/CD, including tools like GHA & CodeDeploy 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 TypeScript with familiarity of other languages such as Go or Python
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
Preferred
Knowledge of streaming video delivery, video encoding workflows, video origin architecture, and issues of scale for video delivery
Familiarity with big data and payments domain
Understand security concepts such as cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security protocols
Experience with Vault, Packer or other HashiCorp tools
Knowledge, or working experience with GCP
Benefits
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!
Company
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is a video service provider for Japanese animated productions and Asian media services. It is a sub-organization of Ellation.
1001-5000 employees
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2024 (15)
2023 (6)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$26.8MKey Investors
Otter MediaTV Tokyo
2020-12-09Acquired
2015-11-20Series Unknown· $22M
2010-03-25Series Unknown· $0.75M
Leadership Team
Punnoose Isaac
SVP and Head of Center for Data and Insights
Monique Barash
VP, People & Capabilities
Recent News
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